Athletics: It's Eastern Promise in the League ; Inside Track
Evening Chronicle › January 01, 2009
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THE North Eastern Harrier League has come a long way since it was formed under the banner of the Northumberland and Durham Paperchase League 100 years ago.
Early records show than in 1908, 14 clubs paid subscriptions of two shillings and six pence for the benefit of members, senior men only of course, to compete in eight fixtures "of not less than five miles and not more than eight miles", with winners receiving a large certificate and runners-up being awarded a smaller one.See the full content of this document
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Athletics: It's Eastern Promise in the League ; Inside Track
Today the league is unique in that it operates a handicap system which came into being, albeit in a slightly different form, in 1911, as the fixtures were cut from eight to six, as it is today.
Certificates were replaced by medals, though the collective cost of those medals...See the full content of this document
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