Several different types of motor cars from all parts of the world are seen. A series of interconnecting roads was used as the race course.
(ca. 1904)
 

The action includes two baseball players running toward the camera; one uniform is distinguishable as Newark, New Jersey.
(ca. 1898)
 

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
(ca. 1894)

This fight consists of six rounds, each round on a film 150 feet long. It is an actual contest between James J. Corbett, former champion of the world, and Peter Courtney.
(ca. 1894)
 

An actual six-round contest between Mike Leonard, commonly called the "Beau Brummel" of pugilism, and Jack Cushing. Full of hard fighting, clever hits, punches, leads, dodges, body blows and some slugging.
(ca. 1894)
 

This is an actual film of the heavyweight championship prize fight. The fight was labeled the shortest and fiercest prize fight on record up to that time.
(ca. 1907)

The films shows a boat race between small, motor-driven speed boats, which were approximately twenty feet long with the inboard engine decked over.
(ca. 1904)
 

Two standard U.S. Navy eight-oar pulling boats, each commanded by a coxswain at the steering position in the stern, are seen abeam of one another.
(ca. 1903)

As the Columbia crosses the line, followed closely by the Shamrock, we see the steam from the whistle of the Light Ship announcing the well earned victory of the American yacht.
(ca. 1899)
 

A man in fashionable sporting attire is standing on some large rocks at the edge of a stream. He is holding a short fishing rod in his hands and casting into the running stream.
(ca. 1903)

The camera shows a small waterfall and a stream. Across the stream on the bank is a man with a fishing pole in one hand and a retrieving net in the other.  At the end of the film, the fisherman catches, nets, and lands a fish. (ca. 1902)
 

Excerpts of a 1903 football game between the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Includes views of the uniformed players, the spectators in the stadium and surrounding stands, and the game itself.
(ca. 1903)
 

The camera was moved to many positions throughout the stadium, which contained an estimated 50,000 spectators.  There is line play shown as well as broken-field running.
(ca. 1903)
 

The view is of a frozen lake in Central Park crowded with ice skaters. It is difficult to tell if the apparent "snow" is real or just scratches on the film.  (ca. 1902)
 

The skaters dart around the ice, swinging their hockey sticks and trying to hit the disc toward the goal. Authentic 1898 hockey match.
 

Shows a part of the enormous crowd and the start and finish of the free-for-all pacing race, in which the fastest harness horses in the world competed for a purse of $6,000.
(ca. 1897)
 

The finish and weighing out of a running race with nine starters. Won by famous Clifford, Sloane up.  (ca.1897)
 

A large group of small boys stand on a pier, looking up at what probably is the railing and hoping pennies will be thrown into the water for them to retrieve. (ca.1902)
 

Several teams of wrestlers in action were photographed from a single-camera position on the set of the gymnasium of the New York Athletic Club. (ca. 1905)
 

Sandow, the modern Hercules.
(ca. 1894)

The subject is a basketball game played between teams of girls.  In the background is a three-story brick school building.
(ca. 1904)
 

Looks more like a vaudeville act than a boxing match.  (ca. 1894)