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Contents 1 Auto racing 1.1 Major race winners 2 Baseball 3 Boxing 3.1 Professional World champions during 1900 4 Football (soccer) 4.1 Events 4.2 National champions 4.3 International tournaments 5 Golf 6 Horse racing 7 Ice hockey 8 Olympics 9 Tennis 10 Births 11 Deaths

Auto racing

Major race winners

• Gordon Bennett Trophy - (Paris to Lyon): Fernand Charron (Panhard)
• Paris-Toulouse-Paris - Alfred Levegh (Mors)

Baseball

• The National League contracts from twelve to eight clubs in a circuit of eight cities that will persist through 1952.
• Brooklyn wins again, five championships in seven seasons for manager Ned Hanlon.
• The Western League takes the name "American League" and moves teams into Chicago and Cleveland. The Chicago White Stockings win the pennant in this one season under the new name and the old minor league status.

Boxing

Professional World champions during 1900

• Heavyweight James J. Jeffries
• Middleweight Tommy Ryan
• Welterweight Mysterious Billy Smith
• Welterweight Rube Ferns
• Welterweight Matty Matthews
• Lightweight Frank Erne
• Featherweight George Dixon
• Featherweight Terry McGovern
• Bantamweight Terry McGovern

Football (soccer)

Events

German Football Association founded in Leipzig.

National champions

Argentina: English High School Belgium: Racing Club de Bruxelles England: Football League - Aston Villa England: FA Cup - Bury France: Le Havre Ireland: Irish Football League - Belfast Celtic Ireland: Irish Cup - Cliftonville Italy: Genoa

Netherlands: Eredivisie - HVV Den Haag Netherlands: Dutch Cup - Velocitas Breda Scotland: Scottish Football League - Rangers Scotland: Scottish Cup - Celtic Sweden: AIK Switzerland: Grasshopper Zurich Uruguay: CURCC (first winners of Primera División Uruguaya) Wales: Welsh Cup - Aberystwyth Town

International tournaments

• 1900 British Home Championship (February 3 – April 7, 1900)

 Scotland

• Olympic Games in Paris, France (October 20 – 28, 1900)
  1. Upton Park F.C.
  2. Club Française
  3. Université de Bruxelles

Golf

• June 4-7 - British Open - John Henry Taylor
• October 3-5 - U.S. Open - Harry Vardon
• British Amateur - Harold Hilton
• U.S. Amateur - Walter Travis

Horse racing

• May 3 - Lieut. Gibson wins the Kentucky Derby

Ice hockey

• February 12–16 - Montreal Shamrocks successfully defend their Stanley Cup title, defeating Winnipeg Victorias in a best-of-three series 2–1.
• March 10 - Montreal Shamrocks win the Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) championship for the second-straight year with a regular season record of 7–1.
• March 5–7 - Montreal Shamrocks defeat the Halifax Crescents in a Cup challenge best-of-three series 2–0.

Olympics

• 1900 Summer Olympics takes place in Paris, France
  • The Olympic status of the games was very underplayed - many competitors did not realise that they had participated in the modern Olympics.
  • Women took part in the modern Olympics for the first time. The first sportswomen to compete in the games were Mme. Brohy and Mlle. Ohnier of France in croquet. The first female champion was Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain in tennis.
  • France wins the most medals (100), and the most gold medals (25).

Tennis

• February 9 - Davis Cup competition is established.

Births

• March 6 — Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975)
• March 12 — Marinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (d. 1972)
• March 17 — Manuel Plaza Reyes, Chilean long-distance runner (d. 1969)
• October 5 — Sam Olij, Dutch heavyweight boxer (d. 1975)
• October 27 — Ko Willems, Dutch track cyclist (d. 1983)
• November 11 — Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (d. 1989)
• November 16 — Eliska Junkova (Elizabeth Junek), Czech Grand Prix motor racing driver (d. 1994)
• December 15 — Hellé Nice, French Grand Prix race car driver (d. 1984)
• December 27 — Hans Stuck, German racing driver (d. 1978)

Deaths

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