1893 in Sport

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Events in Sport

  • Feb 22 1st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 32-22 in Birmingham
  • Mar 24 55th Grand National: Bill Dollery aboard Cloister wins
  • May 4 Cowboy Bill Pickett invents bulldogging, the skill of grabbing cattle by the horns and wrestling them to the ground
  • May 10 19th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Kunze aboard Lookout wins in 2:39.25
  • May 11 Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
  • Jun 10 27th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25
  • Jun 23 7th U.S. Women's National Championship: Aline Terry beats Augusta Schultz (6-1, 6-3)
  • Jul 1 San Francisco Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
  • Jul 17 Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
  • Jul 18 Australian Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia v England, Lord's
  • Jul 20 10th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley (6-8 6-1 6-4)
  • Jul 20 17th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Joshua Pim beats Wilfred Baddeley (3-6 6-1 6-3 6-2)
  • Jul 24 For only time in history of US Tennis championships, an event is held off the Eastern seaboard. Men's double championship in Chicago
  • Aug 28 13th U.S. Men's National Championship: Robert Wrenn beats Fred Hovey (6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4)
  • Sep 1 33rd British Golf Open: William Auchterlonie shoots a 322 at Prestwick Golf Club
  • Oct 13 Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (UK) in 9th America's Cup, in New York
  • Nov 30 2nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 40-16 in Montgomery

Birthdays in Sport

  • Jan 20 Georg Åberg, Swedish athlete (d. 1946)
  • Feb 2 Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970)
  • Feb 10 William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
  • Feb 17 Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
  • Mar 18 Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
  • Mar 24 George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
  • Apr 5 Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (Olympic gold 1924, 28), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1973)
  • Apr 18 Violette Morris, French athlete (d. 1944)
  • Apr 27 Allen Sothoron, American baseball player (d. 1939)
  • May 7 Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
  • May 8 Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913)
  • May 8 Edd Roush, baseball player (d. 1988)
  • May 8 Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (d. 1963)
  • May 21 Arthur Carr, cricket captain (England v Australia 1926)
  • Jun 9 Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
  • Jul 6 Wilton St Hill, WI cricketer (3 Tests 1928-30)
  • Jul 9 George Geary, cricketer (sturdy pace bowler for England 1924-34)
  • Jul 11 Jack Durston, cricketer (England fast bowler against Australia 1921)
  • Jul 22 Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)
  • Aug 18 Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player, born in Emerald, Wisconsin (d. 1985)
  • Aug 21 Theresa Weld Blanchard, American figure skating champion (1914, 1920-24), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
  • Sep 11 W. Douglas Hawkes, British racing driver (d. 1974)
  • Nov 3 R Lindley Murray, tennis champ (US Open-1918)
  • Nov 14 Piet Moeskops, Dutch world champ cyclist (1921-24, 26)
  • Nov 23 Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler (took 60 wickets for South Africa)
  • Dec 1 Herman Griffith, cricketer (pioneering WI pace bowler)
  • Dec 6 Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
  • Dec 31 J M Blankenberg, cricketer (60 wkts in 18 Tests for South Africa)

Deaths in Sport

  • Jan 26 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing baseball, dies on 74th birthday
  • Jul 9 William Scotton, cricketer (wicket in 15 Tests for Eng), suicide
  • Jul 20 Tom Kelly, cricketer (two Tests for Australia 1977-79, 64 runs), dies
  • Oct 10 Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)