1895 in sports

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yp2=1893
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Auto racing

*First real autorace, from Paris to Bordeaux.

Baseball

*Veteran player Bud Fowler and the Page Woven Wire Fence Company organize 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.

Chess

* The Grand International Chess Congress was held in the summer at Hastings, England.

Cricket

*County Cricket Championship - Surrey

Field Hockey

Establishments

* April 16 – HC Bloemendaal, a Dutch field hockey club located in Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland

= Football (American)=

* On September 3 -the first professional football game was played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.

Football (soccer)

England

*First Division - Sunderland win the 1894-95 title.
*FA Cup - Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0.

Golf

*June 13 - British Open - John Henry Taylor
*October 4 - U.S. Open - Horace Rawlins
*British Amateur - John Ball
*U.S. Amateur - Charles B. Macdonald

Horse Racing

*May 6 - Halma wins the Kentucky Derby

Ice Hockey

*Montreal Victorias win their 1st Stanley Cup.
*Halifax Stanley and Dartmouth Jubilees would play the first recorded game involving two all-Black hockey teams leading to the formation of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Events

* February 9 - W.G. Morgan invents volleyball.
* October 4 - first US Open golf tournament played,Horace Rawlings was its first champion.
* Twenty-one rugby union clubs in northern England split to form the Northern Rugby Union, forerunner of rugby league

Rowing

*Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

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.)

Births

* February 2 — George Halas, American football coach (d. 1983)
* February 6 — Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)
* March 20 — Robert Benoist, French racing driver (d. 1944)
* March 26 — Vilho Tuulos, Finnish triple jumper and long jumper (d. 1967)
* April 13 — Ivan Stedman, Australian swimmer (d. 1979)
* May 11 — Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)
* October 31 — Les Darcy, Australian boxer (d. 1917)

Deaths