Events in Sport
- Sep 6 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
- Sep 12 Brooklyn catcher Al Lopez hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
- Sep 13 Tommy Armour wins PGA golf tournament
- Sep 13 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
- Sep 13 50th U.S. Men's National Championship: John Doeg beats Frank Shields (10-8, 1-6, 6-4, 16-14)
- Sep 14 Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
- Sep 16 Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in bottom of 10th to win 15-14
- Sep 18 Enterprise (US) beats Shamrock V (UK) in 15th America's Cup
- Sep 18 NY Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing hits 2 HRs to beat St Louis Browns, 7-6
- Sep 24 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
- Sep 25 Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
Golf Tournament
Sep 27 34th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bobby Jones
Bobby Jones
- Sep 27 White Sox 1st baseman Bud Clancy didn't handle ball at all in a 9 inning game vs St Louis Browns
Event of Interest
Sep 28 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
Lou Gehrig
Birthdays in Sport
- Sep 8 Jeanette Altwegg, England, figure skater (Olympic gold 1952)
- Sep 11 Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player (d. 2002)
- Sep 13 Jimmy McLane, American swimmer (Olympic gold 1500m 1948), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Sep 19 Bullett Bob Turley, Troy, Illinois, MLB pitcher (World Series MVP, 1958), (d. 2013)
- Sep 29 Ramnath Kenny, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for India in 1950's)
Deaths in Sport
- Sep 10 G A Faulkner, cricketer (South African googly all-rounder), commits suicide