Sport
- Boxing:
- January - Freddie Welsh dislocates his neck in a bout of wrestling, rendering him unable to compete.
- 3 June - Jim Driscoll wins the European featherweight title.
- 16 December - Freddie Welsh wins the Commonwealth lightweight title.
- Football
- Cardiff City F.C. win the Welsh Cup - the first time a club from south Wales has done so.
- Swansea Town play their first match at the Vetch Field.
- Rugby league - Ebbw Vale RLFC fold after five seasons, ending the first attempt to bring rugby league to Wales.
- Rugby union
- 14 December - The South African touring team defeats Wales 3-0 at Cardiff Arms Park.
- 26 December - Swansea RFC defeat the South African touring team 3-0 at St Helen's, Swansea.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)