1899 in sports

1899 in sports

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Baseball

*The Brooklyn Superbas Finish 1st in the National League with many of the original Baltimore Orioles stars including Ned Hanlon, Willie Keeler, Hughie Jennings and Joe Kelley.

*The Cleveland Spiders finish last in the twelve-team NL and establish an all-time major league record with 134 losses in a season, 84 games behind the pennant winner and 35 games out of 11th place. The team played 113 games on the road, losing a record 102. They were dropped during the offseason when the National League contracted from twelve to eight teams.

Boat race

*Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Cambridge

Cricket

*County Cricket Championship - Surrey
*The Ashes - Australia beat England 5–0

Cycling

*Bordeaux-Paris road race won by Constant Huret

Football (Australian rules football)

* Victorian Football League
** Fitzroy wins the 3rd VFL Premiership (Fitzroy 3.9 (27) d South Melbourne 3.8 (26))
** "See also Victorian Football League season 1899"

Football (soccer)

England

* First Division - Aston Villa win the 1898-99 title.
* FA Cup - Sheffield United beat Derby County 4–1

Germany

* Eintracht Frankfurt are founded.
* SV Werder Bremen are founded.

Iceland

* Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur is founded, February 16. The first football club in Iceland.

pain

* FC Barcelona is founded on November 29.

American football

*The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team goes undefeated, 12-0, including five road wins in six days over top teams.

Golf

*June 8 - British Open - Harry Vardon
*September 15 - U.S. Open - Willie Smith
*British Amateur - John Ball
*U.S. Amateur - H. M. Harriman

Horse racing

*May 4 - Manuel wins the Kentucky Derby

Ice hockey

* February 15–18 - Montreal Victorias win their fifth Stanley Cup, defeating the Winnipeg Victorias in a Cup challenge.
* March 4 - Montreal Shamrocks win the inaugural Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) championship and take over the Stanley Cup.
* March 14 - The Shamrocks successfully defend the Cup title in a Cup challenge of Queen's College of Kingston, Ontario, winning 6–2.

Tennis

*On September 18, the Cincinnati Open is started. Today, it is the oldest tennis tournament in the United States still played in its original city, and is now known as the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters & Women's Open. The first singles champions are Nat Emerson and Myrtle McAteer.

Yacht racing

*The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as "Columbia" defeats British challenger "Shamrock", of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, 3 races to 0

Births

*May 3 — Paulino Uzcudun, Spanish heavyweight boxer (d. 1985)
*May 24 — Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
*August 3 — Louis Chiron, Monegasque racing driver (d. 1979)
*December 15 — Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978)

Deaths


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