Feb 24 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,000
Birthdays in Sport
Feb 1 Eiji Sawamura, Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (first no-hitter in Japanese pro baseball 1936), born in Ujiyamada, Mie Prefecture, Japan (d. 1944)
Feb 22 Jack Robertson, cricketer (superb England batsman only played 11 Tests)
Feb 28 Hans Deutgen, Swedish world champion archer
Deaths in Sport
Feb 9 Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Aust-Eng Test), dies