Wallasey A.C. confirmed their season's superiority in road racing by winning the Neville White Cup for the Sefton Park Road Relay race on Saturday by a margin of forty-two seconds, despite the absence of their leading runner, Cheshire champion R. Barlow.
Wirral A.C. were quick to exploit the weakness and were in the lead as late as the fourth stage.
On the fifth stage, B. Chalton, put in an unexpectedly fine run to send Wallasey away on the final leg with a lead of eight seconds, which B. Woolford as able to improve on before reaching the finishing post.
The fastest lap of the day, 16 minutes 2 seconds for the 3½ miles lap of the park, was by John Wright, the Wallasey secretary.
Results: - 1. Wallasey A.C. (J. Young, J. Wright, K Mather, A. Townsend, B. Chalton. B. Woolford). Aggregate time: 1hour 39 minutes 34 seconds; 2, Wirral A.C. (D. Biddle, M. Cranny, J. McAllister, K. Griffiths, M. Morrell. L. J. Carroll) 1 hour 40 minutes 20 seconds; 3, Liverpool H (J. Wright, M. Fearon, M. Davies, B. Jones, T. Moore, A N. Thompson) 1 hour 43 minutes 3 seconds; 4, Sutton H., 1 hour 44 minutes 1 second; 5, Pembroke A. & C.C., 1 hour 46 minutes 21 seconds; 6, Port Sunlight A.C., 1 hour 46 minutes 35 seconds.
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Source - Daily Post - Monday, 01/04/1963
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