Event of Interest
Jan 12 Montreal Canadien Joe Malone scores 5 goals beating Ottawa 9-4
Joe Malone
- 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, D.C.
- May 15 43rd Preakness: Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6
Event of Interest
May 15 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
Walter Johnson
- 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 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 and Boston Braves play a MLB record 20 scoreless innings before Pirates win, 2-0 in 21
- 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 3 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills NY: Robert Lindley Murray successfully defends title; 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
Boxing Title Fight
Dec 16 Jack Dempsey KOs Carl Morris in 14 seconds
Jack Dempsey