1885 in sports

1885 in sports

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Baseball

*World Series - Chicago NL ties St Louis A's, 3 games to 3 with one tie.
*The Cuban Giants, composed mainly of African-American players from Philadelphia, is the first black professional baseball team on a reasonably permanent basis. It will sometimes join a league and use a regular home park but more often tour independently.

Football (Soccer)

*July 20 - The Football Association legalises the paying of players.
*FA Cup - Blackburn Rovers beat Queen's Park (Glasgow) 2-0

Golf

*British Open - Bob Martin
*British Amateur - Allen MacFie

Horse Racing

*May 14 - Joe Cotton wins the Kentucky Derby


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*Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

Yacht racing

*The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as "Puritan" defeats British challenger "Genesta", of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 2 races to 0

Births

* March 21 — Charles Daniels, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1973)
*April 10 — Harvey Wood, British field hockey player (d. ??)
*April 18 — Hermann Müller, German race walker (d. 1947)
*June 30 — Heinrich Schomburgk, German tennis player (d. 1965)
*August 5 — Bradley Domjan, Canadian hockey player (d. 1968)
*August 6 — John Robinson, British field hockey player (d. 1916)
* September 8 — Ernestus Greven, Dutch athlete (d. 1924)
* October 12 — Jacques Keyser, Dutch athlete (d. 1954)
* November 21 — Robert Evans, Welsh footballer (d. 1965)
* December 7 — Theodor Nauman, Swedish water polo player (d. 1947)

Deaths


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