1882 | Sports
Sports
William Renshaw wins in singles tennis play at Wimbledon, Richard Sears at Newport.
Boston pugilist John L. (Lawrence) Sullivan, 23, knocks out world champion Paddy Ryan in a bareknuckle match at Mississippi City, Mississippi, to gain the heavyweight title that he will hold until 1892. A surly man when drunk, as he very often will be, the "Great John L." travels about the country offering $1,000 to any man who can beat him (see 1889).
Kobe-born Japanese martial arts student Jogoro Kano, 21, founds Kodokan Judo and establishes judo as a new system that will largely replace jujitsi in Japan.
London's Sporting Times carries an advertisement August 31 with a funereal black border: "In Affectionate Remembrance of English Cricket Which Died at the Oval on 29th of August, 1882; Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. R.I.P. N.B. The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia" (see 1877). An English team sent to Australia next year with instructions to "bring back the ashes" will be presented with a five-inch earthenware urn filled with ashes, and this most hallowed cricket souvenir will be presented to the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1928.