Events in Sport
- Sep 6 Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 22-8
- Sep 12 Brooklyn catcher Al López hits major league's last recorded bounce HR
World Record
Sep 13 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 20,000m (1:04:38.4)
Paavo Nurmi
- Sep 13 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Fresh Meadow CC: American based Scotsman Tommy Armour defeats Gene Sarazen 1-up in the final for the second of his 3 major titles
- Sep 13 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John's Rugby, 7-3
- Sep 13 50th US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: John Doeg beats Frank Shields 10-8, 1-6, 6-4, 16-14 for his lone major singles title
- 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
Golf Tournament
Sep 27 US Amateur Championship Men's Golf, Merion GC: Bobby Jones scores an 8 & 7 win over Eugene V. Homans to win his 5th National Amateur title and clinch golf's Grand Slam
Bobby Jones
- Sep 27 Cub's Hack Wilson's 2 HRs give him NL record 56 HRs
Event of Interest
Sep 28 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
Lou Gehrig
Birthdays in Sport
- Sep 1 Pete Brewster, American football end and coach (NFL Pro Bowl 1955, 56; Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers), born in Portland, Indiana (d. 2020)
- Sep 8 Jeannette Altwegg, English figure skater (Olympic gold 1952), born in Bombay, India
- Sep 11 Saleh Selim, Egyptian football player and 10th president of the Egyptian Al-Ahly Sporting Club, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 2002)
- Sep 13 Jimmy McLane, American swimmer (Olympic gold 1500m 1948), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Sep 19 Bob Turley, American MLB pitcher (World Series MVP, 1958), born in Troy, Illinois (d. 2013)
- Sep 23 Don Edmunds, American auto racer and car builder (National Sprint Car HOF; built Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Sky cycle), born in Santa Ana, California (d. 2020)
- 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