1885 births
"Pietro Frosini"
1885 births | 1951 deaths | accordionists | american accordionists | american songwriters | italian accordionists | italian people | italian-americans | polka musicians | vaudeville performersPietro Frosini (1885-1951) was one of the first famous "stars of the accordion." He was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1885 and began to play the chromatic button accordion at the age of six. In 1905 he emigrated to San Francisco and was discovered by a talent scout for the Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit.
Frosini made one of the first accordion recordings on a cylinder record for Edison in 1907 and made his first Victor recording in 1908. He traveled extensively on the vaudeville circuit in America and abroad and even performed for the King of England.
Ivan Laing
1885 births | british field hockey players | field hockey players at the 1908 summer olympics | olympic bronze medalists for great britain | olympic field hockey players of great britain | year of death missingIvan Laing (born August 18, 1885, date of death unknown) was a British field hockey player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Malcolm Goldie
1885 births | american soccer coaches | american soccer league (1921-1933) players | american soccer players | bethlehem steel players | clydebank f.c. players | fall river marksmen players | naturalized citizens of the united states | new bedford whalers players | pawtucket rangers players | people from glasgow | scottish footballers | scottish-americans | united states men's international soccer players Malcolm Goldie (born 1885 in Glasgow, Scotland) was a Scottish-U.S. soccer outside left who began his career in Scotland before moving to American Soccer League in 1922. He also earned one cap with the U.S. national team in 1925.
Playing
Scotland
In 1915, Goldie began his professional career with Scottish Football League club Clydebank F.C.. At the time the club played in the Second Division, but during the war, the loss of players to the military led to the disbandment of the lower divisions and Clydebank played in the Western League. However, in 1917, they won promotion to the First Division where they remained until relegated following the 1921-1922 season. At that point, Goldie left the club and moved to the United States where he signed with Bethlehem Steel F.C. of the American Soccer League (ASL).Bruno Block
1885 births | 1937 deaths | chicago whales players | chicago white sox players | major league catchers | major league players from wisconsin | washington senators playersJames John Block (born James John Blochowicz on March 13 1885 in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin; died August 6 1937 in S. Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a catcher in Major League Baseball.
Teams
- Washington Senators 1907
- Chicago White Sox 1910-1912
- Chicago Whales 1914
Nils Häggström
1885 births | 1974 deaths | modern pentathletes at the 1912 summer olympics | olympic modern pentathletes of sweden | swedish modern pentathletesNils Ivarson Häggström (born October 4, 1885 - died March 15, 1974) was a Swedish modern pentathlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
In 1912 he finished twelfth in the Olympic modern pethatlon.
John Higgins (cricketer)
1885 births | 1970 deaths | cricket umpires | english cricketers | worcestershire cricketers John Bernard Higgins (31 December 1885–3 January 1970) was an English cricketer and umpire. As a player, he made 121 first-class appearances between 1912 and 1930, having earlier played in the Minor Counties Championship for Staffordshire. The great majority of his first-class matches were for Worcestershire, though he also played in India for the Europeans and, once, a joint "Europeans and Parsees" side. He umpired four first-class games, including one Test match.
Higgins was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he was in the cricket XI. Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1971. He made his first-class debut for Worcestershire against Leicestershire at Amblecote in 1912. Only one day's play was possible in the match, during which Higgins scored 5 and bowled five wicketless overs for 34. It was to be eight years before he played first-class cricket again.
