1701 to 1725 in sports

none July 2017 The beginning of the 18th century saw sport acquire increasing importance in the lives of people in England and Ireland. Professionalism was by then established in the major gambling sports of bare-knuckle boxing, cricket and horse racing. Bandy Events A game that is recognisable as modern bandy was played in Russia by the early 18th century, although the rules in use differed from those devised in England in the 1880s. In Russia, bandy is known as "hockey with a ball" or simply "Russian hockey". The game became popular among the nobility with the royal court of Peter I the Great playing bandy on Saint Petersburg's frozen Neva river. Russians played bandy with sticks made out of juniper wood, later adopting skates.July 2017 Boxing Events 1710 – While attending a boxing match in London, Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach encounters a woman who claims to have fought a public women's boxing match 1708. Uffenbach's account is one of the earliest known references to women's boxing. A History of Women's Boxing Smith Malissa Rowman & Littlefield Lanham, Maryland 2014 9781442229952 2 1719 – James Figg opens one of the first indoor venues for combat sports, adjoining the City of Oxford tavern in Oxford Road, London.Brailsford Dennis 1982 Sporting Days in Eighteenth Century England Journal of Sport History 9 3 45 43609260 June 1722 – Elizabeth Wilkinson and Hannah Hyfield fight one of the earliest advertised women's boxing matches in London. 20 January 1725 – James Figg hosts the first recorded international boxing match, fought between English livestock drover Bob Whitaker and Venetian gondolier Alberto di Carni in London.Gee Tony Figg, James (b. before 1700, d. 1734), prize-fighter 2004 https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-9417?rskey=oUTFIQ&result=2 10.1093/ref:odnb/9417 978-0-19-861412-8 13 June 2022Roberts Randy 1977 Eighteenth Century Boxing Journal of Sport History 4 3 249 43610520 Chess By the beginning of the 18th century, France was the main centre of European chess.July 2017 Cricket Events 29 June 1709 — Kent v Surrey, the earliest known inter-county match. It was, however, probably a match between two parish teams either side of the county boundary.Buckley G. B. G. B. Buckley Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket 1937 Cotterell 1 1 September 1718 — London v Rochester Punch Club at White Conduit Fields was abandoned after three Rochester players made "an elopement" in an attempt to have the game declared incomplete so that they would retain their stake money. A noted lawsuit was opened by the London players in pursuance of their winnings and the judge ordered that the match be "played out".Buckley G. B. G. B. Buckley Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket 1935 Cotterell 2 July 1719 — as ordered by the court, the London v Rochester match was completed and London won by 21 runs. 1721 — mariners of the British East India Company reported to be playing cricket at Khambhat (then Cambay) in western India, the earliest known reference to cricket in the Indian sub-continent.Guha Ramachandra Ramachandra Guha A Corner of a Foreign Field – An Indian History of a British Sport 2001 Picador 3 1724 — earliest mention of Edwin Stead, the noted patron of Kent county cricket; under his leadership, Kent was the most successful team of the 1720s.Altham H. S. Harry Altham A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) 1962 George Allen & Unwin London 31Birley Derek Derek Birley A Social History of English Cricket 1999 Aurum Press Ltd London 1-85410-710-0 19 William Bedle, described in his 1768 obituary notice as "the most expert cricket player in England", played for Kent at this time.Bowen Rowland Rowland Bowen Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development 1970 Eyre & Spottiswoode London 0-413-27860-3 48Buckley G. B. G. B. Buckley Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket 1935 Cotterell 48 1725 — earliest mentions in a cricket connection of the noted Sussex patrons Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet and Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.McCann Tim Timothy J. McCann Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century 2004 Sussex Record Society Lewes 0-85445-055-6 4 Curling Events 1716 — Kilsyth Curling Club was formally constituted and now claims to have been the first club in the world. Kilsyth also claims the oldest purpose-built curling pond in the world at Colzium, in the form of a low dam creating a shallow pool some 100 × 250 metres in size.http://www.paperclip.org.uk/kilsythweb/Communityresources/Curlinghistory.htm Kilsyth Curling History Paperclip.org.uk 4 August 2012 5 February 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120205002421/http://www.paperclip.org.uk/kilsythweb/Communityresources/Curlinghistory.htm dead Football Ireland 1712 — the earliest recorded inter-county match in Ireland at Slane between teams from County Louth and County Meath.https://www.independent.ie/regionals/louth/drogheda-news/relegation-was-always-on-the-cards-for-slane/28972101.html Relegation was always on the cards for Slane www.independent.ie 28 November 2012 17 August 2023 A previous version of modern football was played from the Middle Ages through the 1800s known as mob ball a form a popular roman sports involving men fighting over a weighted ball and goal. Horse racing Events 1711 — Queen Anne kept a large string of racehorses and was instrumental in the organisation of racing at the village of East Cote, now known as Ascot, near Windsor Castle. She founded Royal Ascot where one of the main events each year, continuing into the 21st century, is called the Queen Anne Stakes.https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/royal-ascot%E2%80%99s-first-day Royal Ascot's First Day www.historytoday.com 8 August 2011 17 August 2023 Rowing Events 1716 — the first race for the right to wear Doggett's Coat and Badge held among the professional watermen in London. The course runs four miles and five furlongs (7443 m) from London Bridge to Chelsea. It became established as an annual event continuing into the 21st century.July 2017 References Category:Sports by year