1878 Surrey wicket-keeper Ted Pooley completes a then-1st class cricket record 8 stumpings in a County match against Kent at The Oval1899 US National Championship
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1888 Longest US men’s single tennis tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80 game 1st-round contest1900 Great Britain
1900 Start of first and only Olympic cricket match in Paris; GB beats France by 158 runs1903 Philadelphia Phillies suffer record 9th straight postponed game1909
1886 Carr Baker Neel & Samuel Neel win US Lawn Tennis Association doubles1914 Swiss track and road bicycle racer Oscar Egg sets new hour world
1904 Boston’s Jesse Tannehell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 6-01920 New York Yankees cancel game with Cleveland Indians in memory of Ray Chapman who dies after
1743 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes ‘Rules of the Ring’ – earliest boxing code1883 Dutch soccer club FC Dordrecht is established in Dort
1903 New Zealand’s All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match against Australia’s Wallabies at the Sydney Cricket Ground; New Zealand win 22-31905 Philadelphia A’s
1919 Chicago White Sox outfielder Happy Felsch ties MLB record of 4 outfield assists in a game in 15-6 loss to Boston Red Sox1920 VII
1902 English cricket team beats Australia by one wicket in a famous victory at The Oval, in London1906 Chicago Cub’s pitcher Jack Taylor ends a
1876 Madeline (US) beats Countess Dufferin (Canada) in 4th America’s Cup1879 1st National Archery Association tournament (Chicago)1884 Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211