Events in Sport
- Feb 9 US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
- Feb 10 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
- Feb 13 Olympic boxing gold medallist Johnny Douglas takes 5/46 as England cricket team regains Ashes with an innings and 225 run 4th Test win over Australia in Melbourne
- Feb 16 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
- Feb 20 Argentina beats the MCC in their inaugural 1st-class cricket fixture at the Buenos Aires Cricket Club; lose the second and third games of the series
Cricket History
Feb 28 Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground
Birthdays in Sport
Byron Nelson (1912-2006)
Feb 4 American golfer (winner 5 major titles; record 19 tournaments 1945), born in Fort Worth, Texas
Deaths in Sport
- Feb 28 Bill Storer, English cricket wicket-keeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies