Events in Sport on August 30

1905 Tiger Ty Cobb makes his debut, doubling off Yank Jack Chesbro

1906 Hal Chase becomes 1st NY Yankee to hit three triples in a game
1912 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
1913 Phillies lead Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, Umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled

1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922

1927 41st U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall Shoemaker (6-1, 6-4)

1937 Joe Louis beats Tommy Farr in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
1939 NY Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph)
1941 St Louis Card Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0
1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)

1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
1960 US women's 4 x 100m medley relay team swims world record 4:41.1 to beat Australia and win the gold medal at the Rome Olympics; Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler & Chris von Saltza

1961 Oriole Jack Fisher walks 12 LA Angels in a 9 inning game

1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk
1972 Japanese breaststroker Nobutaka Taguchi beats American pair Tom Bruce & John Hencken to win the 100m gold medal in world record 1:04.94 at the Munich Olympic Games
1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould with a world record 4:19.04 for the 400m, wins her second of 3 gold medals at the Munich Olympics
1972 American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp & Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; world record 3:55.19
1972 Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet team mate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games
1972 Slalom canoeing is introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all 4 events

1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match

1979 In a wild encounter at the US Open, John McEnroe beats Ilie Năstase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Năstase is defaulted by the umpire then reinstated

1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee

1987 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record 2.09m (6'10½"), one of the most long-standing records in athletics
1987 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls

1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m after Ben Johnson is disqualified

1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games
1990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
1991 Mike Powell of US sets then long jump record at 29' 4½" (8.95m)
1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard
1994 Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
1997 1st WNBA Championship: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)

2006 Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game

2012 Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open