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  Joe Start Online Research :: Information about Joe Start   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1871 in sports, he joined the new National Association of Professional Baseball Players 's New York Mutuals, hitting a career-high.360 in his first season with the team, when he was age 28.
After spending 1877 in sports with the Hartford Dark Blues and 1878 in sports with the Chicago Cubs, he found his next home with the Providence Grays.
From 1879 in sports until 1885 in sports, when he was 42, Start held down first base for the Grays and continued to hit well.
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 SPORTS OF THE REAL
In 1878, under a commission from the governor of California, Eadweard Muybridge began to study the motion of horses with the use of a battery of cameras.
As a spectator and a painter of sports, Eakins was able to balance the mental activity of his arts with the physical activity of athletics.
Sports also allowed Eakins a means of studying human form in motion.
xroads.virginia.edu /~Hyper/INCORP/eakins/sports.html   (787 words)

  
 Jews in Sports from A to M
The sport began in 1865 and four years later Montagu Mayer competed in canoe races in England.
Though an outspoken advocate of multiracial cricket, he was to have led his all-white team in the Commonwealth Matches at Edinburgh in 1970, but violent opposition in England to South African apartheid in sport caused cancellation of his team's participation.
In 1964, when this sport was added to the Olympic program for the first time, James Bregman (1941-) of the United States won a bronze medal in the middleweight division.
www.jewishsports.com /jewsin/history/a2mhistory.htm   (2739 words)

  
 List of sports events
Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
1999 in sports - Death of Joe DiMaggio
1993 in sports - Monica Seles is stabbed during a tennis tournament
www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/l/li/list_of_sports_events.shtml   (585 words)

  
 African Americans in the Sports Arena
On view are seven major sporting events - boxing, horse racing, cycling, track and field, basketball, baseball, and football - which opened the doors to the expanding Sports Arenas of today.
The world of sports is such a strong part of the recognizable American fabric that it would be hard to imagine the social, cultural, or political development of this nation without this pastime.
On the other hand, American sports are filled with records of African American athletes capable of participating in the broad sports arena but not given the chance due to their race.
www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/aaitsa.htm   (14867 words)

  
 FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Sport - Times change on the course   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The wisdom of becoming a professional while a schoolgirl is for her and her family to judge, but staying an amateur until he was 21 did Tiger Woods no harm and gave him time to win three US Amateur championships.
There is a danger that the careers of some promising young sports stars are driven more by the demands of commercial sponsors than by how best to develop their playing potential.
It is all a far cry from Joyce Wethered, the English amateur who carried all before her in the 1920s, whose swing was so admired by Bobby Jones that he described her as "the best golfer in the world".
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 History of Women in Sports Timeline - Part 1- to 1899
Women's hockey will become a new sports opportunity in the 1980's and '90's, with the US Women's team winning the gold medal in 1998, the first year women's ice hockey is a medal sport.
She was the first woman named to the Lincoln Journal Sports Hall of Fame in 1954.
By the 1990's, bowling is the second-largest participation sport in the world, with more than 100 million athletes, 46% of whom are women who compete equally with men.
www.northnet.org /stlawrenceaauw/timeline.htm   (3802 words)

  
 ESPN.com: Johnson boxed, lived on own terms
He had his own jazz band, owned a Chicago nightclub, acted on stage, drove flashy yellow sports cars, reputedly walked his pet leopard while sipping champagne, flaunted gold teeth that went with his gold-handled walking stick and boasted of his conquests of whites -- both in and out of the ring.
Born March 31, 1878, John Arthur Johnson would spend much of his childhood working on the boats and sculleries of his native Galveston.
He grew to be 6 feet, 1 1/4 inches and a giant of a young man who hung out with older fighters in Chicago, New York and Boston.
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Hajos was the first-ever Olympic swimming champion, and the first Hungarian Olympic gold medalist when he won two gold medals at the 1896 Athens Olympics.
He is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
He was allowed to compete, but permission from the university to miss class had not come easy.
jewsinsports.org /Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=35   (486 words)

  
 Sports
Probably the earliest known description of a sporting event in Croatia is from the 18th century (1764).
The life of the family of Kostelic is unique in the history of skiing sport (and may be in the history of sport in general).
They were not able to pay for their trainings, so they used to wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning, to wash their faces with snow, and train at dawn (free of charge) with their worn up gloves, while others were still sleeping or having breakfast.
www.hr /darko/etf/sport.html   (4814 words)

  
 One Day Internationals / Results: Games 1001-2000
6 wkts Harare Sports Club 1532 02-Jan-2000 N.Z. 3 wkts Eden Park 1533 04-Jan-2000 N.Z. 7 wkts Owen Delany Park 1534 06-Jan-2000 N.Z. 4 wkts McLean Park 1535 08-Jan-2000 N.Z. 8 wkts Westpac Stadium 1536 09-Jan-2000 Aus.
5 wkts Harare Sports Club 1752 05-Oct-2001 S.A. 4/280 Ind. 5/279 S.A. 6 wkts New Wanderers Stadium 1753 06-Oct-2001 Zim.
70 runs Queens Sports Club 1757 10-Oct-2001 S.A. 192 Ind. 233 Ind. 41 runs Centurion Park 1758 12-Oct-2001 Ind. 0/91 Ken. 90 Ind. 10 wkts Springbok Park 1759 13-Oct-2001 Zim.
stats.rleague.com /odi/lists/results2000.html   (8206 words)

  
 DEER STALKING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This edition enlarged and brought up to date with large additions to make it "more worthy of the favour which is a handbook of Scottish sports has so long been accorded to it".
life and sport in the HIghlands at the beginning of the 19th century.
4to., illus, revised calf binding slight marking, this sketch first appears in the British Sports and Sportsmen series and is now reprinted by kind permission of the publishers of that work, contains references to stalking etc., printed for private circulation not in British Library catalogue, scarce.
home.btconnect.com /Herewardbooks/deer_stalking.htm   (2391 words)

  
 The Annis Family in Sports
She immediately fell in love with the campus and could not ignore the challenging academics nor the remarkable sports program.
The weather was also a determining factor for her since she is from Florida and prefers the temperate climate.
Claude was born July 24, 1878 at Greeley, CO, the son of Franklin Joseph and Maria (Vail) Annis.
www.angelfire.com /mi/annisall/sports.html   (1316 words)

  
 Presidents of US - Notable Notes
His first job after college was as radio sports announcer and in 1937 Reagan had a successful screen test that launched long (53 films) movie career.
After wartime service in the U.S. Navy, his first move toward politics saw Reagan as president of the prestigious Screen Actors Guild where he was involved in the then hot issue of Communism infiltration of the movie industry during which period his political views became conservative.
A Yale University man, Bush is a Phi Beta Kappa and outstanding in sports and as a student.
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 Ivy League Outdoor Track
Crook tells of her introduction into the sport and the accolades she acquired with The Pennsylvania Gazette's David Porter.
When Ran Granger deserted from his role as a cabin boy as a 16-year-old in 1878, it began a journey that resulted in his six sons each earning Ivy League degrees.
As part of the Ivy League's celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, this feature article was included in the project.
www.ivyleaguesports.com /sports/index.asp?intSID=19   (906 words)

  
 Sports timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1994 in sports - World Series cancelled after player strike; Roland Ratzenberger dies during qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix at the Villeneuve corner and Ayrton Senna dies at the Tamburello corner during the race.
1931 in sports - France are thrown out of the Rugby Union Five Nations Championship for professionalism.
1928 in sports - Women's Olympic athletics and gymnastics are held for the first time at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sports-timeline.htm   (2145 words)

  
 Inventor of the Week
Einthoven lived there until he was ten years old, when his mother, widowed four years before, decided to return to the Netherlands with her six children.
Einthoven was an avid athlete and astute student, participating in sports such as gymnastics, fencing and rowing.
Following in his father's footsteps, he became interested in medicine, studying the subject at the University of Utrecht.
web.mit.edu /invent/i-main.html   (776 words)

  
 united sports apparel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Manchester United Football Club started life as Newton Heath, a team founded by workers from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1878.
Honors soon followed and the first of seven First Division titles was won in 1908.
This digital document is an article from Boulder County Business Report, most recently published by The Boulder County Business Report on July 10, 2003.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Video / Box Sets / Sports & Fitness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The story of the history of bowls, one of the oldest sports which was even played by William Shakespeare and Henry VIII.
Featuring the story of boxing and a compilation of the best action from the sport's greatest moments.
The most memorable moments in sport over the last one hundred years.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/712384   (768 words)

  
 Events: The NWHP Newsletter - Febuary 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This day was established to acknowledge the achievement of girls and women in sports and the importance of their participation in sports and fitness.
The NWHP honors all women in sports history as well as those participating in sports and fitness today.
Raising Our Athletic Daughters describes the impact of sports on girls' lives and includes first-hand stories that give compelling evidence that athletics make an extraordinary difference in the lives of girls.
www.nwhp.org /events/newsletter/2004/newsletter0204.html   (2004 words)

  
 Hunting in County Kilkenny, a history of hunting. Acknowledgements.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Both depend heavily on Fitzpatrick's Irish Sports and Sportsmen (1878), as did Connellan before them.
Readers are, from then on, supplied with regular "Sporting Intelligence" on each meet, up to the end of the century.
The twentieth century chapters are based chiefly on a series of interviews, conducted over a period of years, originally with the view to writing a short local history.
www.fresco.ie /huntacknowledgements.htm   (586 words)

  
 African American Registry for Saturday November 12th 2005
*Jack Johnson was born on this date in 1878.
*This date marks the birth in 1878, of "Major" Taylor.
*On what would have been an NHL All-star weekend, we remember Black contributions in the sport of professional hockey.
www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/category/12/sports_outdoors   (2310 words)

  
 Coal River History
The site of the recreation ground appears to have been first used as a sports ground in 1878.
November 1878, a planned match between a Tea Tree eleven and the Lower Jerusalem Club did not eventuate, but a scratch match was played.
The match was held on "some ground kindly lent for the occasion by James Brock, Esq., of Campania.
www.users.bigpond.com /aogreen/page59.html   (630 words)

  
 History of Women in Sports Timeline - Part 2 - 1900 - 1929
Margaret I. Abbott is the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
Edwards and Faurlein Kussin meet in the boxing ring at a bout on March 7.
She demonstrated that women could play men's games and was a prime liberator of women in sports.
www.northnet.org /stlawrenceaauw/timelne2.htm   (4204 words)

  
 1879 in sports Online Research :: Information about 1879 in sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
See also: 1878 in sports, 1879, 1880 in sports and the List of 'years in sports'.
January 2 - January 4, Sydney - Only Test cricket between Australia and England.
April 5 - James F. Prinsep of Clapham Rovers becomes England national football team youngest player, a record that stands for more than 123 years, until broken by Wayne Rooney in 2003.
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 Goldsboro News-Argus | Sports: Events schedule
The Rosewood Youth Sports Association is scheduled to meet Oct. 3 at 7 p.m.
Contact Alan Cuddington at 736-9133 or 221-1878 for more details.
Published in Sports on September 30, 2005 02:02 PM
www.newsargus.com /sports/archives/2005/09/30/events_schedule/index.shtml   (549 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2004048524
No amount of sleuthing will ever fully solve it, but a few clues may lie half-hidden in what little we know of his boyhood.
He was born Arthur John Johnson in Galveston, Texas, on March 31, 1878, the year after the last Union troops were withdrawn from the former Confederacy, leaving freed fls to fend for themselves.† His parents, Henry and Tina (known as Tiny) Johnson, both ex-slaves, did just that.
I clinched Willie and in the breakaway I struck him in the eye which ended the fight.*
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 The Herald News - Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Hometown hero Hideki Matsui homered and Jorge Posada added a pair of three-run homers.
Birthdays: Jack Johnson (1878) - former boxer, Gordie Howe (1928) - Hall Fame NHL player, Miller Barber (1931) - former golfer.
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 Lee Loncasty - Women in Sports Women's Sports
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