1890 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Lena Rice becomes the only Irish female to win at Wimbledon beating May Jacks 6-4, 6-11891 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley
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1900 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: R.F. Doherty beats Sydney Smith 6-8, 6-3, 6-1, 6-2 for his 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title1901 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Charlotte Cooper
1903 National League MLB batting champion Ed Delahanty, disappears after being removed from a train by force, found dead at bottom of Niagara Falls 2
1859 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts1893 San Francisco Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of
1897 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: R.F. Doherty beats Harold Mahony 6-4 6-4 6-3 for the first of 4 titles1899 Spin bowler Jack Hearne takes England cricket’s
1895 US National Championship Women’s Tennis: Juliette Atkinson beats defending champion Helen Hellwig 6-4, 6-2, 6-11897 Chicago Colts establish MLB record for most runs scored
1887 Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-01892 Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories1904 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Reigning champion Dorothea Chambers beats Charlotte
1864 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia: Colonel Sherman makes unsuccessful frontal attack on Confederate defensive lin1890 Canadian boxer George Dixon becomes first black
1899 Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: R.F. Doherty wins 3rd straight Wimbledon singles championship; beats Arthur Gore 1-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-31906 Hongar Szisz wins 1st Grand-Prix
1892 US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Defending champion Mabel Cahill beats Elisabeth Moore 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-21903 NY Yanks & Chicago