1830 in sports

1830 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Leading English batsman Fuller Pilch

Boxing

Events

• Simon Byrne retains his English championship but no fights involving him are recorded in 1830.

Cricket

Events

• No-balls are shown separately on the scorecard for the first time.

England

• Most runs – Fuller Pilch 235 @ 29.37 (HS 70*)
• Most wickets – Jem Broadbridge 27 (BB 5–?)

Curling

• Establishment of the Orchard Lake Curling Club at Orchard Lake, Michigan; it is the first curling club in the United States and uses hickory block stones

Horse racing

England

• 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Charlotte West
• 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Augustus
• The Derby – Priam
• The Oaks – Variation
• St. Leger Stakes – Birmingham

Rowing

Events

• 10 August — the Wingfield Sculls, amateur championship of the River Thames, is founded at the instigation of barrister Henry Colsell Wingfield and raced from Battersea to Hammersmith.

The Boat Race

• The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race is not held this year

Bibliography

• Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970