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Messrs. William Byles and Sons of Bradford supplied a trophy for the “minor” club competition which was instituted in 1885.  The trophy was known as the Bradford Observer Challenge Trophy.  According to a reference to it in a write-up of the 1891 annual meeting of the West Yorkshire Chess Association, it took the form of a salver.  It was won outright by Dewsbury in 1889-90, and was replaced by a second

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