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1885 in sports
1885 in sports describes the year’s events in world sport. America’s Pacific Coast and takes part in an
exhibition bout with Dempsey.[4]
American football Lineal world champions[5]
• World Heavyweight Championship – John L. Sullivan
College championship • World Middleweight Championship – Jack Nonpareil
• College football national championship – Princeton Dempsey
Tigers
Cricket
Association football Events
England • Nottinghamshire wins the county championship title
• FA Cup final – Blackburn Rovers 2–0 Queen’s Park for a third successive season
(Glasgow) at The Oval England
• 20 July — the FA finally legitimises professionalism • Champion County[6] – Nottinghamshire
• Millwall FC founded by workers on the Isle of Dogs as • Most runs – Walter Read 1880 @ 44.76 (HS 163)
Millwall Rovers. • Most wickets – George Lohmann 142 @ 14.36 (BB
• Southampton FC founded as Southampton St Mary’s 8–18)
by members of St Mary’s Church YMCA. Australia
Scotland • Most runs – Billy Barnes 520 @ 43.33 (HS 134)
• Scottish Cup final – Renton 3–1 Vale of Leven at • Most wickets – Bobby Peel 35 @ 19.22 (BB 7–27)
Hampden Park (replay following 0–0 draw)
Golf
Baseball Events
National championship • Inaugural British Amateur Championship held at
• National League v. American Association – Chicago Royal Liverpool Golf Club
NL ties St Louis A’s, 3 games to 3 with one tie. Major tournaments
Events • British Open – Bob Martin
• The Cuban Giants, composed mainly of African- Other tournaments
American players from Philadelphia, is the first black • British Amateur – Allen MacFie
professional baseball team on a reasonably
permanent basis. It will sometimes join a league and
use a regular home park but more often tour
Horse racing
independently. England
• Grand National – Roquefort
Boxing • 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Farewell
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Paradox
Events • Epsom Derby – Melton
• 29 August — John L. Sullivan’s six round defeat of • Epsom Oaks – Lonely
Dominick McCaffrey in Chester Park, Cincinnati, • St. Leger Stakes – Melton
inaugurates the modern World heavyweight boxing Australia
championship under Queensberry Rules.[1] The bout • Melbourne Cup – Sheet Anchor
is described as being "to decide the Marquess of Canada
Queensberry glove contest for the championship of • Queen’s Plate – Willie W.
the world". Sullivan will hold the title until 1892.[2] Ireland
• World Middleweight Champion Jack (Nonpareil) • Irish Grand National – Billet Doux
Dempsey defeats 12 challengers during the year, • Irish Derby Stakes – St. Kevin
most of them by knockouts.[3] USA
• Future World Heavyweight Champion James J. • Kentucky Derby – Joe Cotton
Corbett is the most successful amateur boxer on • Preakness Stakes – Tecumseh
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• Belmont Stakes – Tyrant
Yacht racing
America’s Cup
Rowing • The New York Yacht Club retains the America’s Cup
The Boat Race as Puritan defeats British challenger Genesta, of the
• 28 March — Oxford wins the 42nd Oxford and Royal Yacht Squadron, 2 races to 0
Cambridge Boat Race
References
Rugby football [1] Cyber Boxing Zone – Lineal Heavyweight
Home Nations Championship Champions. Retrieved on 6 June 2009. Archived
• The 3rd series of the Home Nations Championship is 2009-06-08.
not completed [2] Cyber Boxing Zone – John L Sullivan. Retrieved on
Other events 13 November 2009.
• Establishment of London Welsh RFC and Connacht [3] Cyber Boxing Zone – Jack Nonpareil Dempsey.
Rugby Retrieved on 13 November 2009.
[4] Cyber Boxing Zone – James J Corbett. Retrieved on
Tennis [5]
13 November 2009.
"Cyber Boxing Zone". Archived from the original
England on 2009-06-20. http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/
• Wimbledon Men’s Singles Championship – William boxing/pastchp.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
Renshaw (GB) defeats Herbert Lawford (GB) 7–5 6–2 [6] An unofficial seasonal title proclaimed by
4–6 7–5 consensus of media and historians prior to
• Wimbledon Women’s Singles Championship – Maud December 1889 when the official County
Watson (GB) defeats Blanche Bingley (GB) 6–1 7–5 Championship was constituted.
USA
• American Men’s Singles Championship – Richard D.
Sears (USA) defeats Godfrey M. Brinley (USA) 6–3 4–6
6–0 6–3
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