1751 to 1760 in sports

Events in world sport through the decade from 1751 to 1760.

Boxing

Events

29 July 1751 — English champion Jack Slack successfully defends his title against Monsieur Petit, winning in the 7th round after 25 minutes.^[1]
13 March 1755 — Jack Slack v Cornelius Harris at Bristol. Slack wins in round five after twenty minutes.^[1]
20 October 1759 — Jack Slack v Jack Moreton at Acton Wells. Slack wins after 35 minutes.^[1]
17 June 1760 — Jack Slack is beaten by Bill "The Nailer" Stevens in a fight lasting 27 minutes; Slack retires from the ring soon afterwards.^[1]

Events

1751 — Earliest known references to cricket being played in each of Durham,^[2] Somerset,^[3] Warwickshire^[4] and Yorkshire.^[2]
7 & 8 August 1753 — Hambledon v Surrey is the earliest known match on Broadhalfpenny Down, Hambledon winning by 113 runs (discovered in the Salisbury Journal in 2011).^[5]
1754 — The Leeds Intelligencer, forerunner of the Yorkshire Post, begins publication; it has always been a noted source for cricket in Yorkshire.
June 1755 — two matches between Cambridge University and an Eton College team take place in Cambridge, the university winning both.
1756 — Hambledon, almost certainly a local parish organisation at this time, plays three matches against the prominent Dartford Cricket Club.
1757–1760 — Perhaps for the first time, cricket feels the full impact of a major war as it suffers a drain in manpower and investment during the Seven Years' War (to 1763); few first-class matches are recorded with none at all in 1760.
September 1759 — Three Dartford v Rest of England matches are played, a number of well-known names being involved; Dartford win the "series" 2–1.
c.1760 — It is about this time that pitched delivery bowling begins; in turn, it necessitates the creation and deployment of the modern straight bat, replacing the old "hockey stick" type which cannot cope with a ball that bounces.

Events

1758 — First codified Rules of Golf are published by the St Andrews Golfers, later the Royal and Ancient Golf Club.

Events

Having been founded in 1750, the Jockey Club begins to establish rules for British racing; it remains the governing body of the sport until 1993 when it hands over control to the new British Horseracing Board.
1752 — The first recorded steeplechase takes place in County Cork over a distance of 4.5 miles between the towns of Buttevant and Doneraile, the name of this type of race being derived from the practice of racing the horses across country by going from church steeple to church steeple.^[6]
1758 — The Society of Sportsmen of the Curragh, a precursor of the Irish Turf Club is formed.

Ashley-Cooper, F. S. (1900). At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751. Cricket magazine.
Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
Maun, Ian (2011). From Commons to Lord's, Volume Two: 1751 to 1770. Martin Wilson. ISBN 978 0 9569066 0 1.

Sports by year to 1850

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