Events in Sport
- Mar 13 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
- Mar 26 Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators
- Mar 26 77th Grand National: Mr Jack Anthony aboard Ally Sloper wins
- Apr 5 Jess Willard KOs Jack Johnson in 26 for heavyweight boxing title
- Apr 19 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2
- Apr 22 NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time
Baseball Event
- May 8 41st Kentucky Derby: Joe Notter aboard Regret wins in 2:05.4
- May 17 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
- May 17 Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
- May 31 Indianapolis 500: Ralph DePalma wins in 5:33:55.619 (144.583 km/h)
- Jun 5 47th Belmont: George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
- Jun 13 29th U.S. Women's National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt beats Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (4-6, 6-2, 6-0)
- Jun 18 21st US Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol GC NJ
- Jul 18 Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
- Jul 19 Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleveland Indians in the 1st inning
Event of Interest
Jul 29 Pirate Honus Wagner at 41, hits a grand slam HR
Honus Wagner
- Aug 7 Dario Resta, driving a Peugeot, wins the first Champ Car race ever to average over 100mph at a 100-mile race in Chicago; average speed 101.8mph
- Aug 18 Braves Field opens in Boston to see Braves beat Cards 3-1
- Aug 20 White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
- Aug 21 11th Australasian Championships: Gordon Lowe beats Horace Rice (4-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4)
- Aug 31 Chicago White Sox Jimmy Lavender no-hits NY Giants, 2-0
- Sep 1 Jerome Travers establishes a US Amateur Golf Championship record by downing George Crump, 14 & 13, in a 1st-round match at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
- Sep 8 35th U.S. Men's National Championship: William Johnston beats Maurice McLoughlin (1-6, 6-0, 7-5, 10-8)
- Sep 18 Boston Braves trounce St Louis Cardinals 20-1
- Sep 22 Red Sox ask Braves for use of their larger park for World Series
- Sep 29 Philadelphia Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
- Sep 30 Red Sox clinch AL pennant by beating Detroit
- Oct 8 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
Event of Interest
Oct 9 Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game
Woodrow Wilson
- Oct 13 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
- Nov 20 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7
- Dec 14 Jack Johnson is 1st black world heavyweight boxing champion
- Dec 22 Federal Baseball League disolved
- Dec 22 Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati
Birthdays in Sport
- Jan 8 Walker Cooper, American baseball player (d. 1991)
- Jan 20 Joe Hitchcock, darts player (leader of St Dunstan's Four)
- Jan 22 Tom Burtt, cricketer (slow left-armer took 33 wickets for NZ)
- Jan 23 Herma Bauma, Austrian javelin thrower (Olympic gold 1948)
- Feb 1 Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
- Feb 2 Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005)
- Feb 21 Godfrey Brown, British athlete, 4 X 400m runner (Olympic gold 1936), born in Bankura, India (d. 1995)
- Feb 22 Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
- Mar 3 George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur
- Mar 6 Leonard Tose, owner NFL Philadelphia Eagles 1969-85, born in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
- Mar 6 Pete Gray [Wyshner], MLB one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns), born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
- Mar 8 Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (Me tulemme taas, Rion yö), born in Pirkkala, Finland (d. 1979)
- Mar 11 Vijay Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54)
- Mar 17 William Roycroft, Austrian equestrian 3 day (Olympic bronze 1976)
- Mar 19 Norman Yardley, English cricket captain (late 40's)
- Mar 22 George Cresswell, cricketer (3 Tests for NZ aged 35)
- Mar 28 Ray Emery, New Zealand cricketer (NZ Test batsman vs West Indies 1952), born in Auckland (d. 1982)
- Apr 11 Pat Hanlon, British cyclist, born in Newport, Cardiganshire (d. 1997)
- Apr 19 Harry Craft, baseball manager
- May 1 Archie Williams, American athlete (400m gold medal 1936 Olympics), born in Oakland, California (d. 1993)
- Jun 4 Walter Hadlee, cricketer (father of Richard & Dayle), New Zealand batsman 40's
- Jun 13 Don Budge, American tennis player (6 Grand Slam singles titles, Grand Slam 1938), born in Oakland, California (d. 2000)
- Jun 18 Arthur Fagg, cricketer (dual double-centuries in a game for Kent 1938)
- Jun 30 Charles Rowe, cricketer (scored a pair in only Test (NZ v Aust 1946))
- Jul 5 John Woodruff, American athlete (Olympic gold 1936), born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
- Jul 17 Dorothy Poynton-Hill, American platform diver (Olympic gold 1932)
- Jul 27 Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner (late 40's), born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (d. 1973)
- Aug 12 Alex Wojciechowicz, NFL center (Lions, Eagles)
- Aug 18 Max Lanier, baseball player
- Aug 28 Max Robertson, British sports commentator, born in Dacca, Bengal (d. 2009)
- Sep 8 Frank Pullen, English business person and racehorse owner (d. 1992)
- Oct 26 Golfredo Corradetti, Canadian conductor and composer, born in Calgary, Alberta; (d. 1995)
- Oct 26 Joe Fry, British racing driver, born in Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1950)
- Oct 29 Dennis Brookes, English cricketer (one Test England v WI 1948, scored 10 & 7)
- Nov 18 Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2004)
- Nov 25 George Mudie, cricketer (WI all-rounder in one Test 1935, 5 & 3-40)
- Nov 25 Ron Hamence, cricketer (Australian batsman post-WWII)
- Dec 4 Fred Freer, cricketer (Australian pace bowler played one Test in 1946)
- Dec 9 Colin McCool, cricketer (Australian leg-spin all rounder late 40s)
- Dec 18 Dario Mangiarotti, Italian fencing, gold, 2 silver (Olympic-1948, 52)
- Dec 27 Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (d. 1999)
- Dec 29 Bill Osmanski, American football player (d. 1996)
Deaths in Sport
- Jan 6 Reginald Wood, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1886), dies
- Feb 5 Ross Barnes, American baseball player, dies at 64
- Mar 31 Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
- Apr 3 Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (England capt at turn of century), suicide
- May 7 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Sr., American businessman and sportsman (New York Central Railway), dies aboard the RMS Lusitania during World War I at 37
- May 9 François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (Tour de France 1909), dies of gunshot wounds at 28
- May 9 Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player (Wimbledon 1910-13), dies on the Western Front at 31
- Jun 28 Victor Trumper, Australian cricketer (48 Tests for Australia, 3163 runs), dies at 37
- Sep 9 Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
W. G. Grace
Oct 23 W. G. Grace, Victorian England's greatest cricketer, dies of a heart attack at 67
W. G. Grace
- Oct 30 Gervys Rignold Hazlitt, cricketer (9 Tests for Aust 1907-12), dies