Events in Sport
Event of Interest
Jan 2 1st Test match hat-trick, Fred Spofforth at the MCG
Fred Spofforth
- Jan 2 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Illinois
- Jan 23 US National Archery Association forms in Crawfordsville, Indiana
- Mar 28 40th Grand National: J. Moore aboard The Liberator wins
- May 20 5th Kentucky Derby: Charlie Shauer aboard Lord Murphy wins in 2:37
- May 24 7th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Harold wins in 2:40.5
- Jun 5 13th Belmont: George Evans riding Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75
- Jul 16 3rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John Hartley beats V Goold (6-2 6-4 6-2)
- Aug 12 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)
- Sep 19 Thomas Ray becomes youngest to break a world track & field record pole-vaulting 11' 2½" at age 17 years & 198 days
- Sep 29 19th British Golf Open: Jamie Anderson shoots a 169 at St Andrews
- Oct 1 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause
Birthdays in Sport
- Jan 12 Ray Harroun, American race car driver (d. 1968)
- Feb 3 Charles Follis, 1st African American NFLer (Shelby, Ohio)
- Mar 27 Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1929)
- Mar 30 Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
- May 22 Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (Big Ship Great Aussie skipper 1920-21)
- May 23 Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
- May 30 Colin Blythe, English cricketer (outstanding slow lefty pre-WWI), born in Deptford (d. 1917)
- Jun 5 René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
- Jun 11 Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)
- Jun 13 George Gunn, cricketer (elegant English batsman 1907-30)
- Jul 5 Dwight Filley Davis, US Sect of War/donated tennis' Davis Cup
- Jul 27 Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1960)
- Aug 7 Johannes Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07), born in Berg River, Cape Colony (d. 1931)
- Sep 17 Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
- Dec 19 Beals C Wright, tennis champ (US Open-1905)