1895 IN SPORTS

==Auto racing==

★ First real autorace, from Paris to Bordeaux.
==Baseball==

★ Veteran player Bud Fowler and the Page Woven Wire Fence Company organize the Page Fence Giants, a black professional team touring out of Adrian, Michigan. Economic depression in the 1890s has eliminated all but the Cuban Giants in New York City and neighboring states.
== Chess ==

★ The Grand International Chess Congress was held in the summer at Hastings, England.
==Cricket==

★ County Cricket Championship - Surrey
==Field Hockey

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

==

Establishments

★ April 16 – HC Bloemendaal, a Dutch field hockey club located in Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland
==Football (soccer)==

England

★ First Division - Sunderland win the 1894-95 title.

★ FA Cup - Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion 1-0.
==Ice Hockey==

★ Montreal Victorias win their 1st Stanley Cup.

★ Halifax Stanley and Dartmouth Jubilees would play the first recorded game involving two all-Black hockey teams leading to the formation of the Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Events

★ February 9 - W.G. Morgan invents volleyball.

★ October 4 - first US Open golf tournament played,Horace Rawlings was its first champion.

★ Twenty-one rugby union clubs in northern England split to form the Northern Rugby Union, forerunner of rugby league
==Rowing==

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

★ The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as ''Defender'' defeats British challenger ''Valkyrie III'', of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 3 races to 0. (''Valkyrie III'' is disqualified in the second race and abandons the third.)

Births

★ February 2 — George Halas, American football coach (d. 1983)

★ February 6 — Babe Ruth, American baseball player (d. 1948)

★ March 20 — Robert Benoist, French racing driver (d. 1944)

★ March 26 — Vilho Tuulos, Finnish triple jumper and long jumper (d. 1967)

★ April 13 — Ivan Stedman, Australian swimmer (d. 1979)

★ May 11 — Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)

★ October 31 — Les Darcy, Australian boxer (d. 1917)

Deaths