1829 in sports
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1829 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
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[edit] Boxing
Events
- 29 March — Jem Ward fails to take part in a scheduled bout with Simon Byrne and so is held to have forfeited the Championship of England, which falls to Byrne by default.[1]
[edit] Cricket
Events
- The earliest known reference to cricket in Worcestershire occurs in 1829.[2]
England
- Champion County[3] – none proclaimed
- Most runs – 265 apiece by Jem Broadbridge @ 18.92 (HS 52) and William Searle @ 20.38 (HS 87)
- Most wickets – William Lillywhite 42 (BB 8–?)
[edit] Horse racing
England
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Young Mouse
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Patron
- Epsom Derby – Frederick
- Epsom Oaks – Green Mantle
- St. Leger Stakes – Rowton
[edit] Rowing
The Boat Race
- 10 June — the inaugural Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, held on the River Thames at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, is won by Oxford. The event is highly popular with contemporary newspaper reports claiming crowds of twenty thousand travelled to watch.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Cyber Boxing Zone – Jem Ward. Retrieved on 6 November 2009.
- ^ Bowen, p.270.
- ^ An unofficial seasonal title proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted.
- ^ History of the Boat Race. Retrieved on 19 September 2009.
[edit] Bibliography
- Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
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