Sports year 1914
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Events
badminton
The climax of the badminton year 1914 were the All England , the Irish Open and the Scottish Open .
International events
baseball
- April 22nd : Babe Ruth plays his first professional baseball match for the Baltimore Orioles .
- June 8 : The Comitê Olímpico do Brasil and the Federação Brasileira de Sports are founded in Rio de Janeiro.
Soccer
Football associations
- March 31 : The Federação Portuguesa de Futebol is founded in Portugal with its headquarters in Lisbon.
- 18 / July 19 : The Association of Southern German football clubs takes the name of Southern German Football Association on.
German football championships
- March 29 : SpVgg Fürth wins the South German soccer championship 1913/14 . Top scorer Karl Franz dies on September 4th at the front.
- West German football championship 1913/14
- The German soccer championship 1913/14 is the last championship before the start of the world war. The SpVgg Fürth defeated VfB Leipzig in the final on May 31 with 3: 2 after extra time. Football operations in the German Reich will cease in August.
Other national soccer championships
- May 10 : At the Swiss Football Championship 1913/14 , FC Aarau becomes Swiss champions for the second time.
- June 29th : Wiener AF wins the Austrian Football Championship 1913/14 with equal points ahead of SK Rapid Wien because of several games they have won. The last-placed First Vienna FC 1894 , which would then automatically have to be relegated to the 2nd division, a rule that the club itself was responsible for in this form, then founded the rival football union of the Austrian peoples with some other teams .
- Casale FBC wins for the first and only time by the Italian Football Federation conducted Italian Football Championship 1913-14 . In the two-game final on July 5 and 12, the team from Casale Monferrato defeated Lazio Rome with an overall result of 11: 1.
- August 26th : Italian immigrants found the football club Palmeiras São Paulo in Brazil .
athletics
- May 2nd : Edward Beeson , USA, jumps 2.01 m in the men's high jump .
- July 14 : Willie Applegarth , Great Britain, runs the men's 200 yards for 21.2 s.
- August 5th : Jonni Myyrä , Finland, reaches 63.29 m in the men's javelin throw .
- The International Amateur Athletics Federation ( IAAF ), founded in 1912 , publishes the first list of world records in athletics . Since the federation rejects women's sport , it only contains 95 men's world records.
Cycling
- May 24th to June 7th : Alfonso Calzolari wins the Giro d'Italia 1914 , the last Giro d'Italia before the First World War .
- June 28 to July 26 : The Belgian Philippe Thys wins the Tour de France for the second time in a row . On the day of the first stage, Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este is murdered in Sarajevo, which triggers the First World War. Many participants are drafted into the military after the tour because of the general mobilization. There was no Tour de France until 1919 .
- The second Circuit du Midi will also be held parallel to the Tour de France. As in the previous year, Frank Henry wins .
- August 2nd : At the 1914 UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, only one standing race for amateurs is held. Most of the competitions cannot take place because many participants have received their draft notices and left before the start of the World Cup. World champion is the Dutchman Cor Blekemolen .
- The distance bike ride Vienna – Berlin will be held for the sixth and last time. The winner is the German Erich Aberger .
rowing
- March 28th : Cambridge defeated Oxford in the Boat Race in 20'23 ″. It's the last race in six years.
chess
Alekhine , Capablanca and Tarrasch (standing), Lasker and Marshall (sitting, all from left to right) during the tournament
- The 1914 chess tournament in Saint Petersburg is considered to be one of the most important international chess tournaments . The reigning world champion Emanuel Lasker wins it after a sometimes spectacular course.
swim
- July 28 : Percy Courtman , United Kingdom, swims the men's 200 meter chest in Garston in 2: 56.6 min.
tennis
- June 22nd to July 4th : Wimbledon Championships 1914
- 13. bis 15. August : International Lawn Tennis Challenge 1914
Winter sports
ice Hockey
- 16th bis 18th January : Hockey Tournament in Les Avants 1914
- January 20th to 22nd : The LIHG Championship 1914 , the third and final LIHG Championship, takes place in Chamonix under the name Coupe de Chamonix 1914 . The Princes Ice Hockey Club , the team of Great Britain, wins the tournament with a record of 3 wins from as many games. Other participating teams are the Club des Patineurs de Paris , the syndicate Česká sportovní společnost / SK Slavia Prague and the Berlin ice skating club as defending champions.
- February 25 to 27 : The Bohemian national ice hockey team wins the 1914 European ice hockey championship in Germany, in which only three teams take part.
figure skating
- 24 / January 25 : The World Figure Skating Championships 1914 Ladies and Couples will be held in St. Moritz. The Hungarian Opika von Méray Horváth wins the women's competition ahead of the Austrian Angela Hanka . The Finnish couple Ludowika and Walter Jakobsson dominated the pair skating in front of two Austrian couples.
- February 1st / 2nd : The Austrian Fritz Kachler wins the 1914 European figure skating championship in Vienna, where there is only one men's competition.
- 21 / 22 February : The Swede Gösta Sandahl wins the World Figure Skating Championships in 1914 the men in Helsinki before the two Austrians Fritz Kachler and Willy Böckl .
Sledding
- February 1st / 2nd : The first European Luge Championships are held at Jeschken in Reichenberg . Rudolf Kauschka from Austria wins the 1914 European Luge Championships in the individual, with 88 tobogganists at the start. Oh, the double competition goes to Austria.
Skiing
- For the time being, the last German ski championships will be held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .
Others
- July 10th : The Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano is founded.
Born
January to April
- January 7 : Bobby McDermott , American basketball player († 1963 )
- January 8 : Herman Pilnik , German-Argentinian chess master († 1981 )
- January 9 : Adolf Urban , German football player († 1943 )
- January 14th : Fritz Kläger , German motorcycle racing driver and designer († 2007 )
- January 15 : René Le Bègue , French racing car driver († 1946 )
- January 15 : Gyula Kluger , Hungarian chess player († 1994 )
- January 19 : Bob Gerard , British racing driver († 1990 )
- January 19 : Heinz Hasselberg , German racing cyclist († 1989 )
- February 2 : Heiner Fleischmann , German motorcycle racer († 1963 )
- February 6 : Walter Lütgehetmann , German carom player († 1967 )
- February 7th : Friedel Schön , German motorcycle racer († 2005 )
- February 13 : Susanne Pastoors , German athlete († 1984 )
- February 17th : René Vietto , French cyclist († 1988 )
- February 20 : Arnold Denker , US chess grandmaster († 2005 )
- February 23 : Theofiel Middelkamp , Dutch cyclist († 2005 )
- February 28 : Élie Bayol , French racing driver († 1995 )
- March 4 : Gino Colaussi , Italian football player († 1991 )
- March 8 : Jim McMillin , American rower and Olympic champion († 2005 )
- March 8 : Affonso Guimarães da Silva , Brazilian soccer player († 1997 )
- March 8 : Frank Soo , English football player († 1991 )
- March 17 : Sammy Baugh , American football player and coach († 2008 )
- March 19 : Jay Berwanger , American football player († 2002 )
- April 5 : Felice Borel , Italian football player († 1993 )
- April 10 : Paul Russo , American racing driver († 1976 )
- April 12 : Gretel Bergmann , German high jumper († 2017 )
- April 14 : Wilhelm Hahnemann , Austrian and German soccer player († 1991 )
- April 17 : Evelyn Furtsch , American athlete and Olympic champion († 2015 )
- April 23 : Erich Linnhoff , German athlete († 2006 )
- April 29th : Cal Niday , American racing car driver († 1988 )
May to August
- May 1 : Rudolf Gellesch , German football player († 1990 )
- May 7 : Andreas Kupfer , German soccer player († 2001 )
- May 10 : Werner Klaas , German football player († 1945 )
- May 10 : Karl Sutter , German athlete († 2003 )
- May 13 : Joe Louis , American boxer († 1981 )
- May 15 : Tenzing Norgay , Nepalese-Indian mountaineer, first to climb Mount Everest († 1986 )
- May 18 : Marcel Bernard , French tennis player († 1994 )
- May 18 : Emmanuel "Toulo" de Graffenried , Swiss racing driver († 2007 )
- May 21 : Erich Herrmann , German field handball player († 1989 )
- May 24th : John Braspennincx , Dutch cyclist († 2008 )
- May 30th : Paul Benthien , German table tennis player († 1982 )
- June 12 : Go Seigen , Chinese go-player († 2014 )
- June 15 : Larbi Ben Barek , Moroccan and French football player († 1992 )
- June 20 : Robert Moch , American rower († 2005 )
- July 1 : Christl Cranz , German ski racer († 2004 )
- July 3 : Carl Scarborough , American racing driver († 1953 )
- July 12 : Renato Olmi , Italian football player († 1985 )
- July 13 : Sam Hanks , American racing driver († 1994 )
- July 15 : Prince Bira , Thai racing driver († 1985 )
- July 18 : Gino Bartali , Italian cyclist († 2000 )
- July 30th : Michael Morris , Angloir journalist and sports official († 1999 )
- July 30th : André Nocquet , French master of the Japanese martial art Aikido († 1999 )
- August 12 : Hans Theilig , German handball player († 1976 )
- August 30 : Sydney Wooderson , British middle-distance runner († 2006 )
September to December
- September 14th : Manlio Di Rosa , Italian fencer († 1989 )
- September 26 : Achille Compagnoni , Italian mountaineer († 2009 )
- September 26 : Jack LaLanne , founder of the US fitness movement († 2011 )
- September 30 : Baby Ray , American football player († 1986 )
- October 5 : Elfriede Kaun , German athlete († 2008 )
- October 7th : Georg von Metaxa , Austrian tennis player († 1944 )
- October 10 : Mario Lanzi , Italian athlete († 1980 )
- October 10 : Agostino Straulino , Italian yachtsman († 2004 )
- October 11 : Reuben Fine , American chess player and psychoanalyst († 1993 )
- October 14 : Richard Durrance , American skier († 2004 )
- October 23 : Frank Kinard , American football player and coach († 1985 )
- October 24 : Karl Kotratschek , Austrian athlete († 1941 )
- November 10 : Edmund Conen , German football player († 1990 )
- November 12th : Peter Whitehead , English Formula 1 racing driver († 1958 )
- November 14 : Raúl Banfi , Uruguayan football player († 1982 )
- November 24th : Hilde Bussmann , German table tennis player († 1988 )
- November 25 : Joe DiMaggio , American baseball player († 1999 )
- December 13 : Ludwig Kaindl , German athlete († 1995 )
- December 24th : Alfred Dompert , German athlete († 1991 )
- December 31 : Yrjö Nikkanen , Finnish javelin thrower († 1985 )
Died
- May 9 : Arthur Cumming , British figure skater (* 1889 )
- May 12 : Willy Pöge , German entrepreneur, horse, cyclist and motor sportsman (* 1869 )
- July 1st : Franz Suter , Swiss cyclist (* 1890 )
- August 22nd : Spencer Wishart American racing driver (* 1889 )
- September 4 : Karl Franz , German football player (* 1892 )
- September 8 : Johannes Schneider , German football player (* 1887 )
- September 29th : Jean Bouin , French athlete, world record holder (* 1888 )
- October 21 : Franz Wathén , Finnish speed skater (* 1878 )
- December 8th : Melchior Anderegg , Swiss mountaineer and mountain guide (* 1828 )
See also
Web links
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