On This Day in Sport
Events in Sport
- 1900 Start of the one and only Olympic cricket match, in Paris
- 1903 Philadelphia Phillies suffer record 9th straight postponed game
- 1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
- 1917 Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
- 1921 Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
- 1922 36th U.S. Women's National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (6-3, 6-1)
- 1932 46th U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin Babcock Stark (6-2, 6-2)
- 1934 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
Birthdays in Sport
- 1859 Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox)
- 1914 Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
- 1931 Bill Shoemaker, American Racing Hall of Fame jockey (8,833 career victories, Kentucky Derby 1955, 59, 65, 86), born in Fabens, Texas (d. 2003)
- 1934 Bill Cleary, American ice hockey player (Olympic gold 1960)
Deaths in Sport
- 1975 Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
- 1976 Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper and dashing batsman, dies of cancer at 29
- 1982 August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
- 2016 Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, Soviet discus thrower (Olympic gold 1952, 60), involved in shoplift scandal, dies at 87