21 October 1972
Promising start to cross-country season
The efforts of Wallasey Athletic Club were divided last weekend between Winsford where the boys were taking part in the Cheshire Road Relays, and Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, where the girls were having a battle over the country in the first of three Northern Cross Country League races.
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11 November 1972
Poised to take second spot
Wallasey Athletic Club sent an enthusiastic but depleted team to the second Northern Women's Cross-Country League meeting in Carlisle on Saturday. Only one team in the senior section was from Wallasey.
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18 November 1972
Athletes put on a great display
Both sections of Wallasey Athletic Club had one of their most successful weekends ever in meetings at Leeds and Newcastle-under-Lyme. The men's section fielded a strong relay team in the annual Aeron Trophy relay race at Leeds. Dave Lockley ran a magnificent first leg, looming in second with a time of 11 minutes 8 seconds.
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25 November 1972
Athletes re-live summer
Wallasey Athletic Club, members took part in some unusual and out-of-season events at R.A.F. Cosford Indoor Athletics Arena, where an open meeting took place on Saturday.
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02 December 1972
Fine running in relay
In Sefton Park on Saturday, Liverpool & District staged their annual six by three miles relay and Wallasey Athletic Club was represented by a strong team.
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09 December 1972
Championship within the reach of athletes
Wallasey Athletic Club's team of senior men athletes finished eighth in the H. S. Finney four times three miles relay race at Blackpool's Victoria Park last Saturday. A total of 25 teams took part in the race,
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16 December 1972
Good performances by athletes at open
A small party of Wallasey Athletic Club members travelled to R.A.F. Cosford on Saturday to take part in an open indoor meeting.
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23 December 1972
Girls run for North
Only a handful of Wallasey Athletic Club members took part in competitions last Saturday. Margaret Ashcroft, Janice Watts and Barbara Banks had been chosen, on their performances in the Northern League meetings, to represent the North in an inter-area match in Watford.
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30 December 1972
Mary wins Christmas Handicap
Wallasey Athletic Club's annual Christmas Handicap race last Saturday was well supported from its start on Leasowe Road.
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06 January 1973
Margaret battles through
Wallasey Athletic Club's Margaret Ashcroft came seventh in an International New Year Race in South Wales on Saturday, despite an injured foot. Only a small team travelled to the Nos Golan races at Mountain Ash this year, but great hospitality was shown to them by the same family who took the team in last year.
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27 January 1973
Lockley misses county team by one place
Four competitors from the Wallasey Athletic Club took part In the boys' two-mile race at Winnington Park, near Northwich, recently. They were Dave Gray, who finished 18th; Lawrence Jones, 39th; Brendan Kelly, 41st, and Chris Devereaux, who came 42nd.
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03 February 1973
Barbara finishes third at meeting
Wallasey Athletic Club took part in the West Lancashire Cross-Country championships, held last Saturday at Lancaster University.
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10 February 1973
Pete Lewis shines at Cosford
Wallasey Athletic Club's Pete Lewis was one of the three local athletes who took part last weekend in the National Indoor Championships at R.A.F. Cosford. The meeting attracted many of the big names in British athletics; including Mary Peters, Mike Bull and, Ian Stewart.
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24 February 1973
Athletes in big school contests
Several younger members of Wallasey Athletic Club ladies' section took part last Saturday in the Cheshire schools cross-country championships at Tatton Park. It was also a triangular inter-counties event with teams from Staffordshire and Shropshire taking part.
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03 March 1973
Barbara joins national squad
Barbara Banks, of Wallasey Athletic Club, who was placed sixth in the National Cross Country Championships in Rawtenstall on Saturday, has won a place in the English athletic team which will be taking part in the International Cross-Country Championships in Gwent, Belgium, on March 17.
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24 March 1973
Barbara helps England to athletics hat-trick
Barbara Banks of Wallasey Athletic Club, finished 23rd in the international Cross-Country Championships, at Wageram, Belgium at the weekend.
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31 March 1973
Athletes win at Port Sunlight
Another early season track meeting at The Oval, Port Sunlight, last week, produced some encouraging results for Wallasey Athletic Club for such an early date.
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14 April 1973
Large entry in veterans road race
Wallasey Athletic Club were hosts to the Northern Veterans Athletic Club on Sunday for the annual six and a half mile road race. This year's entry was the biggest ever with more than 50 contestants. j
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21 April 1973
Athletic notes
Wallasey Athletic Club's only athlete in action last weekend was Pete Lewis, who scored a resounding victory in an 800m race at Stretford. His time of 1m 54.3 secs. was 6 secs. ahead of the runner-up. This was a tremendous pre-season performance for Pete, who is now captain of athletics at Birmingham University.
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28 April 1973
Athletes ‘loaned out' for Wirral marathon
Several Wallasey Athletic Club members took part in the multi-sport Wirral marathon, which was staged to celebrate the new Merseyside authority on Easter Saturday.
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28 April 1973
Search still on for sports personality
The search is on for Wallasey's Sports Personality and the NEWS is co-operating in the selection.
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19 May 1973
Preston sets club record
On Saturday Wallasey Athletic Club were hosts to teams from all over the north west in the first Northern League meeting of the season. The meeting took place at Woodchurch track, Wallasey's home ground,
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26 May 1973
Search for town’s sports personality
No. 7 Brian Ellis is a member of Liverpool Mercury Racing Club and formerly of New Brighton Cycling Club. He was Merseyside division schoolboy champion in 1971 and a member of the pre-Olympic squad in 1972.
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1759
26 May 1973
Shock wins give Phil county titles
Phil Truscott, Wallasey Athletic Club track captain, caused a major upset list Saturday at Hartford when he surprised the opposition and became the new holder of the Cheshire County 200 metres and long jump titles.
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06 June 1973
Tables turned in Lanes Festival Relay
Wallasey Athletic Club's Barbara Banks continued her current fine form to win the 3,000 metre race in the Northern Championships held in Huddersfield.
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16 June 1973
Julie Halfpenny
Pictured after her success in the 400 metres (senior girls) race at the Cheshire Schools Annual Athletic Championships is Julie Halfpenny a pupil at Oldershaw Grammar School.
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07 July 1973
Uphill struggle to stay with league leaders
In the second Northern League meeting at Huddersfield, Wallasey Athletic Club slipped to third place, behind Longwood and Warrington A.C.
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14 July 1973
Keith leaps to championship triumph
Wallasey Athletic Club's Keith Sorrel pulled out a great performance in the senior boys' long jump to finish second at the English Schools Athletic Championships at the Oval, Bebington, last week.
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28 July 1973
Pete sets personal best at A.A.A. meet
Wallasey Athletic Club's Pete Lewis, recorded a personal best of 1 min. 50.9 secs. in his heat of the 800 metres at the A.A.A. Championships at Crystal Palace recently.
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04 August 1973
Athletes in second spot after narrow defeat
Wallasey Athletic Club's men’s section were narrowly beaten last Saturday in the final league meeting of the season at Warrington Athletic Club grounds. They were pushed into second place after an exciting battle.
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25 August 1973
Athletes set five 'personal bests'
Wallasey Athletic Club runners achieved five personal bests at Stretford last weekend when competing against six other clubs.
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