Events in Sport
- Apr 9 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
- Apr 14 First regular-season Chicago Cubs game broadcast on radio (WGN) by caller Quin Ryan; Cubs beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-2
- Apr 15 NHL's NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
- Apr 17 NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery
- Apr 20 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor in 2:33:00.6
- Apr 21 No baseball games played in NL due to Charles Ebbets' funeral
Birthdays in Sport
- Apr 6 Arthur D Larsen, tennis champ (US Open-1950)
- Apr 13 Frank Chamberlain, English cricketer and CEO (Test & County Cricket Board), born in Elton, Huntingdonshire (d. 2004)
- Apr 14 H G Kischenchand, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52)
- Apr 20 Ernie Stautner, German-American football player, born in Cham, Bavaria, Germany (d. 2006)
Deaths in Sport
- Apr 18 Charles Ebbets, American sports executive (co-owner of Brooklyn Dodgers 1897-1902), dies at 65
- Apr 20 Herbert Lawford, British tennis player (Wimbledon 1887; first exponent of topspin), dies at 73
- Apr 29 Edward J. McKeever, American baseball executive (co-owner Brooklyn Dodgers), dies of influenza at 66