1885 IN SPORTS

==Baseball==

★ World Series - Chicago NL ties St Louis A's, 3 games to 3 with one tie.

★ The Cuban Giants, composed mainly of African-American players from Philadelphia, is the first black professional baseball team on a reasonably permanent basis. It will sometimes join a league and use a regular home park but more often tour independently.
==Football (Soccer)==

★ July 20 - The Football Association legalises the paying of players.

★ FA Cup - Blackburn Rovers beat Queen's Park (Glasgow) 2-0
==Rowing==

★ Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford
==Yacht racing==

★ The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as ''Puritan'' defeats British challenger ''Genesta'', of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 2 races to 0

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Births

Deaths

Births

★ March 21 — Charles Daniels, American freestyle swimmer (d. 1973)

★ April 10 — Harvey Wood, British field hockey player (d. ??)

★ June 30 — Heinrich Schomburgk, German tennis player (d. 1965)

★ August 5 — Bradley Domjan, Canadian hockey player (d. 1993)

★ August 6 — John Robinson, British field hockey player (d. 1916)

★ September 8 — Ernestus Greven, Dutch athlete (d. 1924)

★ October 12 — Jacques Keyser, Dutch athlete (d. 1954)

Deaths