26. Announcement that Sir Hugh Lane was appointed Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, vice Sir Walter Armstrong, resigned.
—At Chelsea, in a baseball match between two American teams, the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox, the latter won by five runs to four. The King was present.
—In a duel near Metz a German officer, Lieut. Haase, was shot dead by a brother officer, Lieut. von Lavallette St. George, who had shown undue attention to his adversary's wife.
28. At Dublin, Ireland beat Scotland at Rugby football by six points to nil.
—At Samar, near the Sea of Galilee, the Turkish military airmen Fethi Bey and Sadik Bey, while flying from Damascus to Jerusalem, were killed by the fall of their aeroplane.
MARCH.
1. Announcement that the King would offer a cup of the value of 100l. for an international yacht race at Panama in 1915.
1, 2. Severe snowstorms in the Eastern United States.
2. At Swansea, Wales beat France at Rugby football by thirty-one points to nil.