Sports year 1883
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baseball
- The Philadelphia Quakers baseball team is formed.
- The New York Gothams baseball team is founded.
Cycling
- February 24th : The Wiener Cyclisten Club , the oldest sports club in Austria, is founded as a pure cycling club.
- The Radsport Club Charlottenburg e. V. is founded. This makes the club the oldest cycling club in Berlin and one of the oldest in Germany.
rugby
- December 16, 1882 to March 3 : Home Nations Championship 1883
- The Scot Ned Haig invents rugby 7 .
rowing
- March 15 : Oxford defeats Cambridge in the Boat Race in 21'18 ".
- March 18 : The German Rowing Association is founded. In its statutes, it has an amateur paragraph designed to prevent workers from entering the association.
chess
- April 26th to June 23rd : Johannes Hermann Zukertort wins ahead of Wilhelm Steinitz at the busy chess tournament in London . The two players fight three years later for the world chess championship . Zukertort plays the game Zukertort - Blackburne, London 1883 against Joseph Henry Blackburne , which is later described by both as one of their best games.
swim
- July 24 : the When trying for a prize of £ 12,000 Whirlpool Rapids of the Niagara River to swim, is Matthew Webb from a vortex pulled into the depths. His body is found four days later. Around eight years earlier, Webb was the first to swim the English Channel without aids.
- German Swimming Championships 1883 : The first German swimming championship is held in Grunewald in Halensee .
tennis
Winter sports
- December 3 : A group of Munich rowers founds the Munich Ice Skating Club .
- The first official toboggan race is held on a natural track in Switzerland .
Born
- January 1 : Alberto Barberis , Italian football player and lawyer († 1976 )
- January 9 : William Garbutt , English football player and coach († 1964 )
- January 11th : Carlo Maffeis , Italian motorcycle racer († 1921 )
- January 13 : Nate Cartmell , American athlete and Olympic participant († 1967 )
- January 15 : Lucien Pothier , French cyclist († 1957 )
- January 26 : Kees Bekker , Dutch football player († 1964 )
- January 27 : Bok de Korver , Dutch football player († 1957 )
- February 5 : Teddy Tetzlaff , American automobile racing driver († 1929 )
- February 6 : Louis Darragon , French cyclist († 1918 )
- March 1 : Arthur Pasquier , French cyclist and pacemaker († 1963 )
- May 1 : Karel Heijting , Dutch football player († 1951 )
- May 2 : Alessandro Cagno , Italian racing driver († 1971 )
- May 5 : Rudolf Spielmann , Austrian chess grandmaster († 1942 )
- May 10 : Victor Johnson , British cyclist, Olympic champion and world champion († 1951 )
- May 10 : Heinz von Hennig , German chess player († 1947 )
- May 18 : Ernst Jordan , German football player († 1948 )
- June 2 : Henri Stoffel , French racing car driver († 1972 )
- June 30 : Ed Wachter , American basketball player († 1966 )
- July 7th : Albert Clément , French racing driver († 1907 )
- August 10 : Konrad Kain , Canadian mountaineer († 1934 )
- August 16 : Karel Verbist , Belgian racing cyclist († 1909 )
- September 5 : Mel Sheppard , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1942 )
- September 12 : Walter Rütt , German racing cyclist († 1964 )
- September 13 : LeRoy Samse , American athlete († 1956 )
- September 22 : William Eastcott , Canadian marksman († 1972 )
- September 24 : Lawson Robertson , American athlete and coach († 1951 )
- October 12 : Johann Studnicka , Austrian footballer († 1967 )
- October 26 : Paul Pilgrim , American athlete and Olympic champion († 1958 )
- October 30 : Karel Gleenewinkel Kamperdijk , Dutch national soccer player († 1975 )
- October 31 : Anthony Wilding , New Zealand tennis player († 1915 )
- November 2 : Willem Boerdam , Dutch football player († 1966 )
- November 5 : Louis Otten , Dutch football player and medic († 1946 )
- December 14 : Ueshiba Morihei , Japanese athlete (founder of the martial art Aikidō ) († 1969 )
- December 15 : Gioacchino Armano , Italian football player († 1965 )
- December 16 : Cyrille Van Hauwaert , Belgian cyclist († 1974 )
- December 23 : Arthur Vanderstuyft , Belgian racing cyclist († 1956 )
- December 26th : Carl Ahues , German chess player († 1968 )
Date unknown
- Rem Fowler , British motorcycle racer († 1963 )
Died
- July 24th : Matthew Webb , British long-distance swimmer (* 1848 )
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