1859 in sports
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1859 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 |
Contents |
[edit] Australian rules football
- Australian rules football codified
- Melbourne Football Club is founded
- Geelong Football Club is founded
[edit] Baseball
- National Association of Base Ball Players champion – Brooklyn Atlantics
- A group in southern Ontario adopts the New York rules in place of the Canadian rules. The Niagara club of Buffalo, New York joins the National Association (by participating in the meeting) although it plays only locally.[1]
- In Brooklyn, Jim Creighton moves from the local Niagara club to Star at midseason and on to Excelsior for next year, perhaps for monetary reward.
[edit] Boxing
- John Morrissey announces his retirement and relinquishes the Championship of America, which is awarded to his nearest challenger John C. Heenan.
- English champion Tom Sayers defends his title twice, defeating Bill Benjamin in 11 rounds and Bob Brettle in seven.
[edit] Cricket
Events
- 1 March – reorganisation of Kent CCC into the present club.
- 21, 22 & 23 July – in a remarkable all-round performance, V E Walker of Middlesex, playing for All-England Eleven versus Surrey at The Oval, takes all ten wickets in the Surrey first innings and follows by scoring 108 in the All-England second innings, having been the not out batsman in the first with 20. He takes a further four wickets in Surrey’s second innings. All-England win by 392 runs.
- 7 September – departure of cricket's first-ever touring team. The team of English professionals went to North America and played five matches, winning them all. There were no first-class fixtures. A famous photograph was taken on board ship before they sailed from Liverpool.
Honours – England
- Champion County – Surrey CCC
- Most runs – James Grundy 530 @ 17.09 (HS 67)
- Most wickets – John Jackson 83 @ 11.07 (BB 8-32)
[edit] Horse racing
- The Queen's Plate is initiated by the Toronto Turf Club and will be run for the first time in June 1860. The Queen's Plate is run over 1¼ miles by 3-year-old thoroughbed horses foaled in Canada and is the oldest race for thoroughbreds in North America.
Steeplechases
- Grand National – Half Caste
Flat races
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – The Promised Land
- Epsom Derby – Musjid
- St. Leger Stakes – Gamester
[edit] Lacrosse
- Lacrosse is elected Canada's national sport by the Parliament of Canada.
[edit] Rowing
- Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race – Oxford
- The third Harvard-Yale Regatta following 1855 and 1852 (and Harvard's third win). Contested again in 1860 and 1864, the event from 1859 might be called annual with war-time interruptions.
[edit] Tennis
- The first game of lawn tennis was played by Major Harry Gem and his friend Augurio Perera in 1859, using a croquet lawn.
[edit] References
- ^ The next two members by distance from the New York City meeting — the Union and Liberty clubs merely in Trenton and New Brunswick, New Jersey— also played no matches within the association. The other 47 of 50 members were from Jersey City and Hoboken, New Jersey and from modern New York City. Marshall D. Wright, The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2000, 31-40 (1859 data).
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