1904 in sports

1904 in sports

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Baseball

*World Series - The NL champion New York Giants refuse to participate in the 1904 World Series
* May 5: Boston Americans ace Cy Young pitches a perfect game, the second of his three no-hitters. He will complete 24 hitless innings, still the record, and 45 scoreless innings, a record broken by Jack Coombs in 1910


=Minor leagues=

* The Duluth White Sox win the Northern League championship

Football (Australian rules football)

* Victorian Football League
** Fitzroy wins the 8th VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 9.7 (61) d Carlton 5.7 (37)).
** "See also Victorian Football League season 1904"

Football (soccer)

* World governing body FIFA is founded. The football associations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland do not join.

England

* First Division - The Wednesday retain the title in 1903-04, having won it the previous season as well.
* FA Cup - Billy Meredith scores the only goal in Manchester City's 1-0 win over Second Division Bolton Wanderers. It is City's first major honour. In 1904 Hull, Leeds and Chelsea were all formed.

Golf

*June 7-10 British Open - Jack White
*July 7-9 U.S. Open - Willie Anderson
*British Amateur - Walter Travis
*U.S. Amateur - H. Chandler Egan

Horse racing

* The world's greatest steeplechase, the Aintree Grand National is won by the New Zealand bred Moifaa ridden by Arthur Birch, trained by Bill Hickey and owned by Spencer Gollan. There is a popular but false myth that Moifaa had been shipwrecked on his way from the Antipodes Islands to England.
*May 2 - Elwood wins the Kentucky Derby

Ice hockey

* January -Ottawa Hockey Club defeats Winnipeg Rowing Club to defend the Stanley Cup in a Cup challenge.
* February - Stanley Cup champion Ottawa Hockey Club withdraws from the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) over a demand by the league to replay a game.
* February - Ottawa defeats Toronto Marlboros in a Cup challenge.
* March 2 - Ottawa plays Montreal Wanderers to a 5–5 tie in a Cup challenge, but Montreal refuses terms of continuation of series and defaults.
* March - Quebec Bulldogs win the CAHL championship and demand the Stanley Cup, but the trustees rule the Cup stays with Ottawa. Quebec refuses to play Ottawa in a challenge.
* March - Ottawa defeats the Brandon Wheat Kings 2 games to 0 in a Cup challenge.
* May 14 - Jim McGee of the Ottawa Hockey Club dies from a horseback riding accident in Ottawa. His funeral is attended by the Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier and the Canadian Chief Justice Henri Elzéar Taschereau.
* December 18 - The Dawson City Nuggets begin, by dog sled, their 4,000 mile journey to play the Ottawa Hockey Club in a Stanley Cup challenge scheduled for January 13, 1905.

Olympic Games

*1904 Summer Olympics takes place in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
**Lacrosse is played in the Olympics for the first time (it was dropped after the 1908 Summer Olympics). Three teams competed: one from the United States and two from Canada.
**Only 42 of the 94 events included athletes not from the United States.
**The first Africans take part in the Olympics - two Tswana tribesmen who were taking part in a Boer War exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis run in the marathon.
**United States wins the most medals (236), and the most gold medals (77).

Births

*February 8 — Henk Timmer, Dutch tennis and field hockey player (d. 1998)
*March 7 — Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
*May 25 — Marcel Thil, French world champion boxer (d. 1968)
*July 2 — René Lacoste, French champion tennis player (d. 1996)
*August 8 — Achille Varzi, Italian racing driver (d. 1948)
*September 4 — Sabin Carr, American pole vaulter (d. 1983)
*November 29 — Héctor Castro, Uruguayan football player and coach (d. 1960)
*December 14 — Attila Petschauer, Hungarian fencer (d. 1943)

Deaths

* May 14 - Jim McGee, Canadian football and ice hockey player.


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