Events in Sport
Boxing Title Fight
Feb 23 Tommy Burns beats Marvin Hart in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
Tommy Burns
- Feb 28 Stanley Cup: Ottawa HC beats Queen's University (Kingston, ON), 12-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
Birthdays in Sport
- Feb 10 John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
- Feb 16 Vera Menchik, Russian born British chess master, 1st official women's world chess champion (1927-39), born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1944)
- Feb 27 Mal Matheson, New Zealand cricket fast bowler (2 Tests) and rugby union Test referee (Australia v NZ 1946), born in Omaha, New Zealand (d. 1985)