1882 in sports
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Events
Baseball
- The St. Louis Brown Stockings are founded.
Cricket
- 28-29. August: England lose to Australia for the first time a Test match at home. The glosse like obituary in the Sporting Times justified the Ashes, one of the oldest countries in fighting sports history.
Football
- In Tottenham Hotspur Cricket Club are based members of the Hotspur FC, later Tottenham Hotspur FC.
- The Sports Stadium Ewood Park will be built.
Golf
- Bob Ferguson wins for the third consecutive year the Open Championship at St Andrews, Scotland
Jiu-jitsu
- Kanō Jigorō establishes a dedicated sports school for Jiu -Jitsu, the Kodokan and developed over the next two years, the sport of Judo.
Athletics
- The German gymnastics educator Christian Georg Kohlrausch published a treatise on the discus throw.
Rowing
Sailing
- JULY 23: A one-day regatta with 20 yachts Düsternbrook is the birth of the Kiel Week, held annually.
Tennis
- In the Wimbledon final of the Briton William Renshaw wins against his twin brother Ernest Renshaw 6-1 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-2.
Club -ups
- April 20: The More Sports Racing Club de France is founded.
- September 17: The Dutch Skating Union is founded.
Born
- March 2: Karl Zilgas, German football player († 1917)
- March 3: Elisabeth Abegg, German resistance fighter († 1974)
- March 15: James Lightbody, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1953)
- March 15: William Schomburgk, German football player and president of the German Tennis Association († 1959)
- April 4: Noud punch, Dutch soccer player († 1970)
- April 8: Albert bow, Austro- Hungarian fencer († 1961)
- APRIL 14: Rudolf Watzl, Austrian wrestler in the lightweight class († 1915)
- May 29: Jan Schoemaker, Dutch soccer player († 1954)
- May 30: Wyndham neck shaft, British track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1915)
- 9 June: Bobby Kerr, Canadian track and field athlete, Olympic champion and later a sports official († 1963)
- 24 June: Carl Diem, German sports official and scientist († 1962)
- June 30: Heinrich Riso, German footballer ( † after 1909)
- July 3: Dirk Lotsy, Dutch soccer player († 1965)
- AUGUST 29: Peter Günther, German cyclists ( † 1918)
- September 6: Paul Fischer, German national football team († 1942)
- September 12: Mığır Mığıryan, Ottoman athlete and Olympian ( † after 1912)
- September 20: Ossip Bernstein, French chess player († 1962)
- SEPTEMBER 24: Max Decugis, French tennis player († 1978)
- November 4: Bob Douglas, American sports manager, founder of the New York Renaissance ( † 1979)
- NOVEMBER 17: Maurice Germot, French tennis player († 1958)