Events in Sport in 1921

Jun 8 Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM

Jun 10 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
Jun 11 53rd Belmont: Earl Sande riding Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8
Jun 13 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
Jun 21 HSC '21 soccer team forms in Haaksbergen
Jun 25 56th British Golf Open: Jock Hutchison shoots a 296 at St Andrews
Jun 29 34th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats E Ryan (6-2 6-0)
Jul 2 41st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Brian Norton (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 7-5)

Jul 2 Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)

Jul 22 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD

Jul 29 Cleveland's 125th anniversary celebration: Cy Young, 54, pitches 2 inn

Aug 3 Due to a technicality, 8 Chicago White Sox accused in Black Sox scandal are acquited, however Landis throws them out of baseball
Aug 5 1st radio baseball broadcast Pirates-8, Phillies-0 (KDKA, Pitts)
Aug 7 Cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes world champ sprinter

Aug 19 Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits

Aug 20 35th U.S. Women's National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Mary Browne (4-6, 6-4, 6-2)
Aug 25 Yankee pitcher Harry Harper hits 3 batters in an inning tying record
Aug 27 J E Clair of Acme Packing Co of Green Bay granted an NFL franchise
Aug 28 Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games
Sep 3 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0)

Sep 5 Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287

Sep 19 41st U.S. Men's National Championship: Bill Tilden beats Wallace F. Johnson (6-1, 6-3, 6-1)

Sep 28 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY

Oct 2 NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR
Oct 5 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0
Oct 6 Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
Oct 9 Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
Oct 10 NFL Decatur Staleys become Chicago Staleys, win 14-10
Oct 13 NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series
Oct 16 Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series
Oct 16 Jim Conzelman takes over as coach of Rock Island Independents from Frank Coughlin-only mid-game coaching change in NFL history
Oct 23 Green Bay Packers play 1st NFL game, 7-6 win over Minneapolis
Oct 31 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track & field association)
Dec 3 9th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 23-0
Dec 20 AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
Dec 31 14th Australasian Championships: Rhys Gemmell beats Alf Hedeman (7-5, 6-1, 6-4)