1895 in sports
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1895 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 |
Contents |
[edit] American football
- 3 September – the earliest known professional football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania where Latrobe YMCA defeats the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.
[edit] Association football
England
- The Football League – Sunderland 47 points, Everton 42, Aston Villa 39, Preston North End 35, Blackburn Rovers 32, Sheffield United 32
- FA Cup final – Aston Villa 1 - 0 West Bromwich Albion at Crystal Palace, London. This is the first time Crystal Palace is used as the venue for the final and it will stage all finals until 1914.
- In the Football League, Liverpool is relegated from Division One to Division Two and Bury is promoted. Walsall is expelled from the league and replaced by Loughborough FC (league membership 1895 – 1900)
- West Ham United founded as Thames Ironworks FC, a works team, by Arnold Hills who is a London shipyard owner.
Scotland
[edit] Baseball
- Baltimore Orioles win the second of three successive National League championships
- Temple Cup – Cleveland Spiders 4 - 1 Baltimore Orioles
- Veteran player Bud Fowler and the Page Woven Wire Fence Company organise the Page Fence Giants, a black professional team touring out of Adrian, Michigan. Economic depression in the 1890s has eliminated all but the Cuban Giants in New York City and neighboring states.
[edit] Boxing
Events
- Bob Fitzsimmons relinquishes the World Middleweight Championship in order to fight as a heavyweight (there is no light-heavyweight division yet).
Lineal world champions[1]
- World Heavyweight Championship – James J. Corbett
- World Middleweight Championship – Bob Fitzsimmons → title vacant after Fitzsimmons relinquishes it
- World Welterweight Championship – Tommy Ryan
- World Lightweight Championship – title vacant
- World Featherweight Championship – George Dixon
- World Bantamweight Championship – Jimmy Barry
[edit] Chess
- The Grand International Chess Congress is held in the summer at Hastings, England.
[edit] Cricket
Events
- W G Grace's "Indian Summer" in which he scores his 100th career century and becomes the first player to score 1000 first-class runs in a calendar month (i.e., May)
- County Championship expands from 9 to 14 teams with the restoration of Derbyshire and Hampshire; and the introduction of Essex, Leicestershire and Warwickshire
- Inaugural Minor Counties Championship is held
Honours – England
- County Championship – Surrey
- Minor Counties Championship – Durham, Norfolk and Worcestershire share the title
- Most runs – W G Grace 2346 @ 51.00 (HS 288)
- Most wickets – Tom Richardson 290 @ 14.37 (BB 9-49)
- Wisden Cricketer of the Year – WG Grace
Honours – Australia
- Sheffield Shield – Victoria
- Most runs – Albert Ward 916 @ 41.63 (HS 219)
- Most wickets – George Giffen 93 @ 22.54 (BB 8-77)
[edit] Golf
Events
- Inaugural U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur tournaments are held.
Great Britain
USA
[edit] Horse racing
Steeplechases
- Grand National – Wild Man From Borneo
Flat races
- Australia: Melbourne Cup – Auraria
- Canada: Queen's Plate – Bonniefield
- Ireland: Irish Derby Stakes – Portmarnock
- English Triple Crown Races:
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Kirkconnel
- Epsom Derby – Sir Visto
- St. Leger Stakes – Sir Visto
- United States Triple Crown Races:
- Kentucky Derby – Halma Soup
- Preakness Stakes – Belmar
- Belmont Stakes – Belmar
[edit] Ice hockey
- Stanley Cup – Montreal Victorias (first win)
- Halifax Stanley and Dartmouth Jubilees play the first recorded game involving two all-black hockey teams leading to the formation of the Coloured Hockey League based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The league will feature teams from across Canada's Maritime Provinces and will operate until 1930.
[edit] Motor racing
- The Paris-Bordeaux-Paris Rally is held and is the first real motor race as all competitors start together. The winner is Émile Levassor in his Panhard-Levassor 1205 cc model. He completes the course in 48 hours and 47 minutes, finishing nearly six hours before the runner-up.
- The significance of this event is that it proves that cars and their drivers can travel very long distances in a reasonable time. It gives an enormous boost to the motor industry and the enthusiastic public interest in the event ensures the popularity of motor racing as a sport.
[edit] Rowing
[edit] Rugby football
- Twenty-one clubs in the north of England split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of broken time payments and form the Northern Rugby Union, which is the forerunner of the Rugby Football League. In due course, two separate codes of rugby football develop: rugby union, governed by the RFU; and rugby league, governed by the Northern Union and RFL.
- The issue of professionalism has reached crisis point in rugby football. Association football to its credit has never allowed professionalism to cause an actual split in the sport and the two philosophies of amateurism and professionalism are able to co–exist, as they have done in cricket for more than 200 years, though not always in harmony.
[edit] Tennis
England
- Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Wilfred Baddeley (GB) defeats Wilberforce Eaves (GB) 4-6 2-6 8-6 6-2 6-3
- Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Charlotte Cooper Sterry (GB) defeats Helen Jackson (GB) 7-5 8-6
France
- French Men's Singles Championship – André Vacherot (France) defeats L Riboulet (France): scores unknown
USA
- American Men's Singles Championship – Fred Hovey defeats Robert Wrenn 6-3 6-2 6-4
- American Women's Singles Championship – Juliette Atkinson defeats Helen Hellwig 6-4 6-2 6-1
[edit] Volleyball
- 9 February – William G Morgan invents volleyball
[edit] Yacht racing
- The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as Defender defeats British challenger Valkyrie III, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 3 races to 0. (Valkyrie III is disqualified in the second race and abandons the third.)
[edit] References
- ^ "Cyber Boxing Zone". Archived from the original on 2009-06-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1245517290435089. Retrieved on 2009-06-20.
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