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
- Jun 21 Infielder William White plays one game for the Providence Grays with conjecture was the first African-American to play MLB even though he appeared Caucasian
- 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 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 raing cyclist, born in Moret-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne, France (d. 1907)
- Jun 8 Ethel Larcombe, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1912), born in Isington, England (d. 1965)
- Jun 11 Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player, born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1944)
- Jun 13 George Gunn, cricketer (elegant English batsman 1907-30)
- Jul 5 Dwight F. Davis, American politician (49th United States Secretary of War) and founder of Davis Cup, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1945)
- Jul 27 Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada (d. 1960)
- Aug 7 Johannes Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (1902-07), born in Berg River, Cape Colony (d. 1931)
- Aug 26 Joe Jeannette, American boxer (world coloured champion 1909), born in West Hoboken, New Jersey (d. 1958)
- Sep 17 Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
- Oct 21 Willie Anderson, Scottish golfer (4-time US Open champion), born in North Berwick, Scotland (d. 1910)
- Dec 19 Beals C Wright, tennis champ (US Open-1905)
Deaths in Sport
- Mar 13 Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60