Events in Sport
Boxing Title Fight
Feb 7 Last bare knuckle champion John L. Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
John L. Sullivan
- Feb 17 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
- Mar 24 44th Grand National: Lord Manners aboard 10/1 shot Seaman wins in heavy snow and freezing conditions
- May 16 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00
- May 27 10th Preakness: T Costello aboard Vanguard wins in 2:44.5
- Jun 8 16th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Forester wins in 2:43
- Jun 24 National League expels umpire Richard Higham from baseball for dishonesty after his links with gambling on games are confirmed
- Jul 17 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Defending champion William Renshaw beats twin brother Ernest Renshaw 6-1, 2-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2
- Aug 29 Australia beat England by 7 runs - "Death of English cricket"
Event of Interest
Aug 29 Fred Spofforth completes 14-90 for match v England (7-46 & 7-44)
Fred Spofforth
- Sep 2 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport R.I.: Defending champion Richard Sears beats Clarence M. Clark 6-1, 6-4, 6-0
- Sep 25 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
- Sep 30 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Bob Ferguson wins third consecutive Open title; beats fellow Scot Willie Fernie by 3 strokes
- Oct 6 1st World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL), 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
- Oct 7 1st World Series Baseball Game 2: Chicago White Stockings (NL) beats Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA), 2-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
Birthdays in Sport
- Feb 9 Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicket-keeper (5 Tests 1909-12)
- Mar 16 Jim Lightbody, American athlete (Olympic gold 800m, 1500m, 2590m Steeplechase 1904), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1953)
- Apr 1 Paul Anspach, Belgian fencer (Olympic gold individual epée, team epée 1912), born in Burcht, Belgium (d. 1981)
- Apr 5 Don Blackie, Australian cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1928-29), born in Bendigo, Australia (d. 1955)
- Apr 7 Bert Ironmonger, Australian cricket spin bowler (14 Tests; 74 wickets @ 17.97; Queensland, Victoria), born in Pine Mountain, Australia (d. 1971)
- Apr 25 Fred McLeod, Scottish golfer (US Open 1908), born in North Berwick, Scotland (d. 1976)
- May 18 Babe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1968)
- May 30 Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (Olympic gold 1908), born in London (d. 1915)
- Jun 9 Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (1909 Olympics), born in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland (d. 1963)
- Jun 24 Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
- Jul 2 Edgar Mayne, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria), born in Jamestown, South Australia (d. 1961)
- Aug 2 George Sargent, English golfer (US Open 1909), born in Dorking, Surrey (d. 1962)
- Aug 22 Harry Makepeace, English cricketer (4 Tests for England v Australia 1920-21), born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire (d. 1952)
- Sep 3 Johnny Douglas, English cricket all-rounder, boxer (23 Tests; Olympic gold middleweight 1908), born in Stoke Newington, London (d. 1930)
- Sep 9 Clem McCarthy, American sportscaster (d. 1962)
- Sep 17 Frank Schulte, American baseball outfielder (NL MVP 1911; Chicago Cubs), born in Cochecton, New York (d. 1949)
- Oct 14 Charlie Parker, English cricketer (legend Gloucs SLA, but 2-32 in only Test), born in Prestbury, Gloucestershire (d. 1959)
- Oct 15 Charley O'Leary, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1941)
- Oct 18 Lucien Petit-Breton, French road cyclist (Tour de France 1907-8), born in Plessé, France (d. 1917)
- Nov 9 Joe Hardstaff Sr., English cricket batsman and umpire (5 Tests; umpire 21 Tests), born in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire (d. 1947)
- Nov 20 Andy Coakley, American baseball player and long-time coach at Columbia University, born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 1963)
- Dec 7 Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (great NSW & Aussie opening bat 1909-26), Warren, New South Wales (d. 1954)
- Dec 12 Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theorist), born in Stawiski, Poland (d. 1961)
- Dec 16 Jack Hobbs, English cricketer known as "The Master" and the leading run-scorer (61,760 runs) and century-maker in first-class cricket (199 centuries), born in Cambridge, England (d. 1963)
- Dec 31 Ben A. Jones, American horse trainer (US Champion trainer by earnings 1941, 43, 44, 52; Kentucky Derby x 6 including Citation, Whirlaway), born in Parnell, Missouri (d. 1961)