Events in Sport
- Feb 22 “Father of American Golf” John Reid first demonstrates golf on a Yonkers cow pasture to friends
- Mar 10 Heavyweight Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
- Mar 23 50th Grand National: George Mawson aboard Playfair wins
- Apr 1 Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam
- May 11 16th Preakness: F Littlefield aboard Refund wins in 2:49
- May 14 14th Kentucky Derby: George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00
- Jun 9 22nd Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Sir Dixon wins in 2:40.25
- Jun 15 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Bertha Townsend beats Ellen Hansell 6-3, 6-5
- Jul 16 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod retains her title beating Blanche Bingley 6-3, 6-3
- Jul 16 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Ernest Renshaw beats Herbert Lawford 6-3, 7-5, 6-0
Event of Interest
- Aug 20 Longest US men's single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest
- Aug 28 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Henry Slocum beats Howard Taylor 6-4, 6-1, 6-0
- Oct 3 New Zealand Natives, a privately organised and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in UK; beats Surry 4-1; first national rugby team to wear all-black & perform the 'haka'
- Oct 8 British Open Golf, St Andrews: Scotsman Jack Burns wins his lone Open title by 1 stroke from Ben Sayers and David Anderson Jr
- Oct 20 Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
- Oct 31 Scottish vet John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tyre
- Nov 14 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes
- Dec 22 Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
- Dec 25 1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
Birthdays in Sport
- Jan 4 Arthur Berry, England, soccer player (Olympic gold 1908, 12)
- Feb 2 Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
- Mar 1 Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
- Mar 4 Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
- Mar 4 Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
- Mar 19 Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
- Apr 3 Neville Cardus, English writer and cricketer, born in Rusholme, Manchester, England (d. 1975)
- Apr 4 Tris Speaker, American baseball player, hit more doubles than Pete Rose, born in Hubbard, Texas (d. 1958)
- Apr 18 Duffy Lewis, American baseball player (d. 1979)
- May 17 A P "Tich" Freeman, cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent & England)
- May 23 Zack Wheat, American baseball player (d. 1972)
- Jun 28 George Challenor, West Indian cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman), born in St. Michael, Barbados (d. 1947)
- Jul 1 Ben Taylor, American Baseball Hall of Fame 1st baseman, manager (Negro Leagues), born in Anderson, South Carolina (d. 1953)
- Jul 6 Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid), born in Sydney, New South Wales
- Jul 10 Graham McNamee, American early sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl), born in Washington D. C. (d. 1942)
- Jul 24 Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman (20's), born in Sevenhill, Clare, Australia (d. 1973)
- Jul 28 Sidney Pegler, South African cricket leg spinner (16 Tests), (d. 1972)
- Sep 15 Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
- Oct 4 Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater, born in Kristiania, Norway (d. 1954)
- Oct 30 Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek Olympic champion (d. 1913)
- Nov 19 Jose RaulCapablanca, Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
- Dec 20 Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958)
Deaths in Sport
- Jun 20 Johannes Zukertort, German chess player, dies at 45