Events in Sport
- Oct 8 Phillies win their 1st & only World Series game before 1980, beating Red Sox, 3-1, with an 8th inning 2 run rally
Sports History
Oct 9 Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game
- Oct 13 Baseball World Series: Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-4 at the Baker Bowl to clinch series 4-1
Birthdays in Sport
Deaths in Sport
W. G. Grace
Oct 23 W. G. Grace, English cricket all-rounder and captain (22 Tests; 54,896 runs over record 44 first class seasons; Gloucestershire), dies of a heart attack at 67
- Oct 30 Gervys Rignold Hazlitt, cricketer (9 Tests for Aust 1907-12), dies