title: 1825 in sports
text: # 1825 in sports
  
  1825 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
  
  ## Baseball
  
  Events
  
  * "A baseball club, numbering nearly fifty members, met every afternoon during the ball playing season" in Rochester, New York, wrote Thurlow Weed in 1883 (Life of Thurlow Weed, vol. 1)
  
  ## Boxing
  
  Events
  
  * 19 July — Jem Ward takes the English Championship when he defeats Tom Cannon in the tenth round at Warwick.
  
  ## Cricket
  
  Events
  
  * On Thursday 28 July, a schools match at Lord's between Harrow and Winchester having just concluded, the pavilion burns down overnight with the consequent loss of valuable scorecards, records and trophies
  * Inter-county cricket is revived for the first time since 1796 with Sussex playing two matches each against Hampshire and Kent. Hampshire and Kent do not play each other.
  
  England
  
  * Most runs – Jem Broadbridge 552 (HS 135)
  * Most wickets – Jem Broadbridge 31 (BB 6–?)
  
  ## Horse racing
  
  England
  
  * 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Tontine
  * 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Enamel
  * The Derby – Middleton
  * The Oaks – Wings
  * St. Leger Stakes – Memnon
  