On This Day in Sport for July 1
Events in Sport
- 1859 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- 1893 San Francisco Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
- 1901 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Gore beats defending 4-time champion R.F. Doherty 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4 for his 1st of 3 Wimbledon singles titles
- 1903 Tour de France: Inaugural race begins in Montgeron, a south-eastern suburb of Paris
- 1904 III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games open in St Louis, the first held in the United States
- 1904 Willie Anderson becomes the first 2-time Western Open golf champion, beating fellow Scot Alex Smith by 4 strokes at Michigan's Kent CC
- 1910 Chicago's White Sox Park (later Comiskey Park) opens - St Louis Browns beat White Sox, 2-0
- 1916 Pittsburgh shortstop Honus Wagner, at 42 and 4 months, connects at Cincinnati to become the oldest to hit an inside-the-park HR; Pirates beat Reds, 2-1
- More Events in Sport
Carl LewisWeddings in Sport
- 1981 NFL quarterback Joe Montana (25) weds second wife Cathleen Castillo
- 2011 Prince Albert of Monaco marries South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock in the Throne Room, Prince's Palace, Monaco
More Weddings & Divorces in Sport
Deaths in Sport
- 1916 William Booth, English Test cricket batsman (WWI 2 Tests), dies at the Somme at 39
- 1948 Achille Varzi, Italian auto racer (14 Grand Prix wins), dies in practise crash at 43
- 1965 Wally Hammond, England cricket batsman (7,249 Test runs @ 58.45), dies of a heart attack at 62
- 1971 Learie Constantine, West Indian cricket all-rounder, lawyer and politician (UK's first black peer), dies of a heart attack at 69 [1]
July in Sport History
1st US Olympic Games
Poster promoting the 1904 Summer Olympic Games in St. Louis
July 1, 1904The Rise and Fall of Boris Becker
Boris Becker stunned the tennis world on this day by becoming the youngest player to win Wimbledon at just 17. But financial ruin lay ahead for the young star.
July 7, 1985Cricket's Most Prolific Run-Scorer Of All Time
A world record was set up on this day when Graham Gooch, captain of England, stepped up to the crease at Lord’s, the legendary home of cricket.
July 31, 1990
