1864 in sports
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1864 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
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[edit] Association football
Events
- 7 December — Notts County, then called Notts FC, is formally established and remains the oldest club in the Football League
[edit] Baseball
National championship
Events
- The Atlantic club of Brooklyn, New York suffers only one early tie. One match is at Rochester against the Young Canadian club of Woodstock, Ontario, 75–11.
- New rules empower the umpire to "call" balls (bad pitches) and eventually award first base on balls, practically limiting the number of pitches and the length of each batsman's turn.
[edit] Boxing
Events
- Tom King retires and the English Championship becomes vacant till 1866.[1]
- American Champion Joe Coburn tries unsuccessfully to set up a fight with former English Champion Jem Mace. There are challenges to Coburn from Mike McCoole and Jimmy Elliott.[2]
[edit] Cricket
Events
- Law 10 is rewritten by MCC to allow a bowler to bring his arm through at any height providing he keeps it straight and does not "throw" the ball. The issue of overarm bowling has crystallised in the Willsher-Lillywhite incident of August 1862.
- The concept of a champion county gains popularity when newspapers begin to publish tables of inter-county match results
- 12 January — formation of Lancashire CCC at a meeting in Manchester
- 27–29 January — Otago v. Canterbury at Dunedin is the start of first-class cricket in New Zealand
- Madras v. Calcutta is the start of first-class cricket in India
- First issue of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
England
- Champion County[3] – Surrey
- Most runs – William Mortlock 855 @ 34.20 (HS 105)
- Most wickets – James Grundy 99 @ 11.31 (BB 9–19)
[edit] Golf
Major tournaments
[edit] Horse racing
Events
- Inaugural running of the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Springs, New York is won by Kentucky
England
- Grand National – Emblematic
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Tomato
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – General Peel
- Epsom Derby – Blair Athol
- Epsom Oaks – Fille de l'Air
- St. Leger Stakes – Blair Athol
Australia
- Melbourne Cup – Lantern
Canada
- Queen's Plate – Brunette
[edit] Rowing
The Boat Race
- 19 March — Oxford wins the 21st Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Other events
- The Harvard–Yale Regatta resumes after three years and will continue annually.
[edit] Rugby football
Events
- Foundation of Huddersfield RLFC which is the oldest Rugby Football League member
[edit] References
- ^ Cyber Boxing Zone – Tom King. Retrieved on 8 November 2009.
- ^ Cyber Boxing Zone – Joe Coburn. Retrieved on 8 November 2009.
- ^ An unofficial seasonal title proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted.
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