Events in Sport
Event of Interest
Jul 1 Australian cricket captain Don Bradman scores 128 in 141 mins with 15 fours in a tour match vs Surry
Donald Bradman
Hall of Fame
Jul 1 Brooklyn's future Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Roy Campanella debuts with 3 hits in a 6-4 loss to the rival NY Giants
Roy Campanella
- Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Bob Falkenburg beats John Bromwich of Australia 7-5, 0-6, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 for his only Grand Slam singles title
- Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-3, 8-6 for the first of 3-straight Wimbledon singles titles
- Jul 2 British Open Golf, Muirfield: England's Henry Cotton wins by 5 strokes from Irishman Fred Daly for his third Open victory
- Jul 7 Cleveland Indians stun MLB by signing 42 year old veteran Negro Leagues pitcher Satchel Paige
- Jul 13 15th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-2 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
Event of Interest
Jul 16 Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Philadelphia, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott & Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
Leo Durocher
- Jul 26 Leo Durocher returns to Ebbets Field as a NY Giant
- Jul 27 Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404
- Jul 29 XIV Summer Olympic Games open at Wembley Stadium in London
- Jul 30 Czech distance running legend Emil Zátopek wins the 10,000m at the London Olympics in 29:59.6, an Olympic record
- Jul 31 American swimmer Wally Ris wins the coveted 100m freestyle gold medal at the London Olympics beating team mate Alan Ford by 0.4 seconds
- Jul 31 Harrison Dillard ran an Olympic record 10.3 seconds to beat fellow American Barney Ewell for the 100m gold medal at the London Olympics
Birthdays in Sport
- Jul 4 Ed Armbrister, Bahamian baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), born in Nassau, Bahamas
- Jul 4 René Arnoux, French formula-1 racer (6th place-1980), born in Pontcharra, Isère, France
- Jul 6 Brad Park, Scarborough Ontario, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
- Jul 7 Fred Brown, NBAer (Seattle SuperSonic)
- Jul 13 Alf Hansen, Norwegian double sculls (Olympic gold 1976)
- Jul 13 Don Sweet, CFL, NFL place kicker (Montreal, Green Bay), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Jul 13 Tony Kornheiser, American sports journalist
- Jul 15 Enrique Basilio, hurler, 1st lady to light Olympic flame (Mexico-1968)
- Jul 17 Cathy Ferguson, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic gold 1964)
- Jul 20 Mary Dwyer, American LPGA golfer, born in California
- Jul 21 Ed Hinton, American sportswriter
- Jul 21 John Hart, American Major League Baseball executive (Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves), born in Tampa, Florida
- Jul 26 Allen Doyle, American professional golfer (1991 Memorial-64th), born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island
- Jul 26 Norair Nurikian, Armenian-Bulgarian bantam weightlifter (Olympic gold 1972, 76), born in Sliven, Bulgaria
- Jul 27 Peggy Fleming Jenkins, American figure skater (Olympic Gold 1968), born in San Jose, California
- Jul 29 Neal Walk, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Jazz, NY Knicks), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2015)
Deaths in Sport
- Jul 1 Achille Varzi, Italian auto racer (14 Grand Prix wins), dies in practise crash at 43
- Jul 3 Quintin McMillan, cricketer (13 Tests for South Africa), dies
- Jul 8 Dave Nourse, cricketer (45 Tests for South Africa 1902-24), dies
- Jul 26 Charles Mills, South African cricketer (Test v England 1891-92), dies
- Jul 27 Woolf Barnato, British financier and racing driver, dies at 52
- Jul 27 Joe Tinker, American professional baseball player and manager, dies at 68