July 1951 in Sport

Events in Sport

Jul 3 33rd PGA Championship: Sam Snead at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa

Jul 5 Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7½ games (Giants will win pennant)
Jul 6 65th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Dick Savitt beats Ken McGregor (6-4 6-4 6-4)
Jul 6 80th British Golf Open: Max Faulkner shoots a 285 at Royal Portrush Golf Club
Jul 7 58th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (6-1 6-0)
Jul 10 18th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 8-3 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit
Jul 12 NY Yankees Allie Reynolds no-hits Cleveland Indians, 8-0
Jul 14 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)

Jul 16 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little Brown and Company

Jul 18 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion

Jul 30 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players

Jul 3 Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricket all rounder (431 wickets), born in Christchurch, New Zealand

Jul 5 Richard "Goose" Gossage, relief pitcher (Yankees, Padres, A's)
Jul 11 Sridharan Jeganathan, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka v NZ 1983)
Jul 14 Judi Brown, E Lansing Mich, 400m hurdler (Olympic silver 1984)
Jul 15 Jesse Ventura, [James Janos], wrestler, actor and politician (Governor of Minnesota 1999-2003), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jul 18 Bruce Alan Lietzke, Kansas City KS, PGA golfer (1978 Canadian Open)
Jul 19 Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
Jul 20 Larry Black, 4x100 runner (Olympic gold 1972), born in Miami, Florida
Jul 21 Doug Collins, American basketball player (Olympic silver 1972)
Jul 21 Slick Watts, NBA (Seattle SuperSonic)
Jul 26 Robert Edwin Wadkins, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open-2nd), born in Richmond, Virginia
Jul 29 Dan Driessen, American baseball player
Jul 31 Evonne Goolagong Cawley, NSW Aust, tennis player (Wimbledon 1971)