1894 in sports

1894 in sports

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yp2=1892
yp3=1893
year=1894
ya1=1895
ya2=1896
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Auto racing

*First contest organised in Paris.

Baseball

*Baltimore wins the first of three championships following three by Boston
*Major League Baseball's highest scoring season, 1876-2005
**The Boston Beaneaters set the current record for the most runs scored in a season (1220) and sets another standing record with seven players scoring 100 or more runs
**The Philadelphia Phillies bat .349 for the season with all four outfielders above .400, but finish fourth despite the feat

Cricket

*County Cricket Championship - Surrey

Football (soccer)

England

*First Division - Aston Villa win the 1893-94 title.
*FA Cup - Notts County beat Bolton Wanderers 4-1.
*The Second Division is expanded from fifteen teams to sixteen for the 1894-95 season, bringing the total number of League clubs to 32.

Golf

*British Open - John Henry Taylor
*British Amateur - John Ball

Horse Racing

*May 15 - Chant wins the Kentucky Derby

Ice hockey

* March 22 - Forward Billy Barlow netted two goals as Montreal HC wins their second Stanley Cup in a row, defeating the Ottawa HC 3–1.

Boat race

*Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

Births

* January 12 — Georges Carpentier, French boxer (d. 1975)
* June 1 — Dušan Milošević, Serbian athlete and footballer (d. 1967)
* August 25 — Nick Winter, Australian athlete (d. 1955)
* October 5 — Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (d. 1948)

Deaths


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