Sport
- The Welsh Baseball Union is founded.
- Boxing
- 24 April - Gipsy Daniels wins the British light-heavyweight championship.
- 9 July - Tosh Powell beats Johnny Edmunds to become the new Welsh bantamweight champion.
- Frank Moody wins the British lightweight and middleweight titles.
- Football
- 23 April – For the only time in its history, the FA Cup is won by a non-English team -- Cardiff City F.C., who defeat Arsenal 1-0 in the first broadcast final.
- Abergavenny Thursdays F.C. is formed.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
““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)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)