1895 in sports

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MARCH 23: The process performed at the initiative of Nettie Honeyball first women's soccer match between England and Northern England -South ends in 7:1.
MAY 5: The SC Victoria Hamburg is founded.
May: Southern German Football Association dissolves after two years again.
June 3: Hamburger SV St. George of 1895 is founded.
The Hamburg- Altona Football Association organized the first championship games. The first game will take place on September 1: The Altona FC from 1893 subject to the Association with FC 0:5.
September 1: The Federation of Belgian Athletic sports companies is founded.

Presumably in December: William G. Morgan developed the game Mintonette as gentler alternative to 1891 invented basketball. Under the name of volleyball it will in the next few years into a globally popular sport.

4 October: In Newport, Rhode Iceland, will be held for the first time the U.S. Open in golf. The winner is the Briton Horace Rawlins.

March 30: Oxford defeated Cambridge in the Boat Race in 20'05 ".
November 17: The Brazilian CR Flamengo Rowing Club is founded. In later years, he is best known for its football department.

Summer: In the first Hastings Hastings Chess Tournament will be held. Surprise winner is the American Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Wilhelm Steinitz is at the tournament - together with world champion Emanuel Lasker - only third party, although it is by the lot Steinitz -. Bardeleben of Hastings in 1895 against Curt von Bardeleben own estimation plays the best game of his life

February 3: Wilhelm Mauseth, Norway, 500 meters speed skating runs in Trondheim in 46.8 sec

FEBRUARY 23: Jaap Eden, the Netherlands, the 1500 meter speed skating runs in Hamar in 2:25,4 min.
FEBRUARY 23: Jaap Eden, the Netherlands, the 10,000 meter speed skating runs in Hamar in 17:56,0 min.

January 24: Albert Divo, French race car driver († 1966)
2 February: George Halas, American football player, coach and owner of a NFL team ( † 1983)
6 February: George Herman Ruth, a German-born American baseball player († 1948)
February 9: Dutch Sternaman, U.S. American football player and football functionary († 1973)

AUGUST 29: Carlo Bigatto, Italian footballer and coach († 1942)
September 7: James Anderson, Australian tennis player († 1973)
September 13: Morris Kirksey, American track and field athlete and Olympic champion († 1981)
September 27: Woolf Barnato, British financier, car racing and cricket players († 1948)

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