Grand C.W.A. Championship Meet, St. John

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• September 7, Labor Day (opens in a new tab)

  Numbered programme of ten races for the Labor Day championship meet: One Mile Novice, Half-Mile and One Mile and Five-Mile C.W.A. Championships, One Mile Boys' Race, One Mile 2.50 Class, Three Mile 'Special', One Mile Handicap, One Mile Consolation, and a three-mile Team Race.
• FIRST PRIZE (opens in a new tab)

  First-place prizes for the meet's events, including the Victoria Hotel Cup ($20), a Gold Medal, a pair of Vim Tires from Welland Vale Manufacturing Co., the Royal Hotel Cup, the Mayor's Medal donated by Mayor Robertson, the Dufferin Hotel Cup, a banquet lamp from O. H. Warwick, and the $75 Massey-Harris Trophy.
• SECOND PRIZE (opens in a new tab)

  Second-place prizes donated by St. John merchants: a silver medal from T. McAvity & Sons, shoes from Waterbury & Rising, tires and rims from Goold Bicycle Co. and Ira Cornwall Co., Morgan & Wright tires from Chicago, and a meerschaum pipe from W. A. Stewart, plus a $10 New Victoria Hotel Cup for the fastest competition time.
• THIRD PRIZE (opens in a new tab)

  Third-place prizes including suspenders from J. A. Wilson, military brushes from Canadian Drug Co., a item from F. A. Jones, a work basket from W. H. Thorne & Co., a steel engraving from C. Flood & Sons, and an item from D. Magee's Sons.
• The St. John Bicycle and Athletic Club (opens in a new tab)

  Club announcement guaranteeing visitors a good time on September 5-7: a road race Saturday, dinner at 'The Willows' and other runs Sunday, a Monster Parade and races on Labor Day Monday, with prizes presented at a Smoking Concert in the Club Rooms; entries close September 3rd, signed by Secretary Fred. L. Temple.
• A SEALED HANDICAP ROAD RACE. (opens in a new tab)

  Saturday, September 5th fifteen-mile sealed handicap road race, with time prizes of a $25 Scovil Bros.' Silver Cup and $16 Dunlop tires and rims, and place prizes including a $25 Bertrand gun from John Griffith's Cycle Corporation, an $8.50 silver pitcher from Ferguson & Page, and a $2 Waltham Cyclometer.
• Inter-Provincial Team Race (opens in a new tab)

  Describes the three-mile Inter-Provincial Team Race for teams of three bona fide members from any C.W.A.-affiliated Maritime club, contested for a $75 Silver Trophy donated by Massey-Harris Company, Ltd.