Events in Sport in 1918

Jan 12 Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals beating Ottawa 9-4

Feb 26 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604
Mar 2 NY Yankees purchase 1st baseman George Burns from Detroit Tigers & immediately trades him to Philadelphia A's
Mar 13 1st NHL championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
Mar 18 Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
Mar 30 Stanley Cup: Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
Apr 18 Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play
Apr 27 Giants' 9-0 winning start & Dodgers' 0-9 losing streak are stopped
Apr 30 Orange Nassau soccer team forms in Groningen
May 4 Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
May 11 44th Kentucky Derby: William Knapp on Exterminator wins in 2:10.8
May 14 Sunday baseball is made legal in Washington, DC
May 15 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6

May 15 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game

May 24 Cleveland Indians Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19) as the Indians beat the Yankees 3-2
Jun 1 Excelsior Maassluis soccer team forms in Maassluis
Jun 1 White Sox losing 5-4 against NY Yankees, load the bases in 9th with no outs Chick Gandil lines to Frank Baker who turns a triple play
Jun 13 Phillies and Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
Jun 22 32nd U.S. Women's National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt beats Eleanor Goss (6-4, 6-3)
Jun 23 Boston Red Sox Dutch Leonard's 2nd no-hitter beats Tigers, 5-0

Jul 8 Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple

Jul 17 Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
Jul 19 Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
Aug 1 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings
Aug 24 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
Aug 24 Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
Aug 28 Tris Speaker suspended for season due to assault on umpire Tom Connolly
Aug 31 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
Sep 1 Baseball season ends due to WW I

Sep 1 Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns

Sep 3 38th U.S. Men's National Tennis Championship: Robert Lindley Murray beats Bill Tilden (6-3, 6-1, 7-5)
Sep 5 Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early
Sep 10 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
Sep 11 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series
Oct 18 NHL's Quebec Bulldogs sold to a Toronto businessman P. J. Quinn
Dec 10 John Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League for the 2nd time

Dec 16 Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds

Dec 21 Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore & Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell & Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters & $15,000
Dec 26 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW)
Dec 31 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager