1830 in sports
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Leading English batsman Fuller Pilch
1830 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Boxing
Events
- Simon Byrne retains his English championship but no fights involving him are recorded in 1830.[1]
Cricket
Events
England
- Most runs[3] – Fuller Pilch 235 @ 29.37 (HS 70*)
- Most wickets[4] – Jem Broadbridge 27 (BB 5–?)
Curling
- Establishment of the Orchard Lake Curling Club at Orchard Lake, Michigan; it is the first curling club in the United States and uses hickory block stones
Horse racing
England
- 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Charlotte West
- 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Augustus
- Epsom Derby – Priam
- Epsom Oaks – Variation
- St. Leger Stakes – Birmingham
Rowing
Events
- 10 August — the Wingfield Sculls, amateur championship of the River Thames, is founded at the instigation of barrister Henry Colsell Wingfield and raced from Battersea to Hammersmith.
The Boat Race
- The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is not held this year
References
- ↑ Cyber Boxing Zone – Jem Ward. Retrieved on 6 November 2009.
- ↑ Bowen, p.270.
- ↑ CricketArchive – season summary (batting)
- ↑ CricketArchive – season summary (bowling)
Bibliography
- Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
