August 1954 in Sport
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Months in 1954: January February March April May June July September October November December
Events in Sport
Results 1 - 7 of 7
1st - Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France
5th - Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern & 15 pioneers
5th - Patty Berg wins LPGA World Golf Championshio
10th - Sir Gordon Richards retires as a jockey with record 4,870 wins
13th - 21st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Detroit 31, All-Stars 6 (93,470)
16th - "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
25th - Ivan Filin wins Berne marathon (2:25:26.6) (260m)
Birthdays in Sport
Results 1 - 16 of 16
2nd - Sammy McIlroy, Irish soccer star
3rd - Gary Peters, English footballer
4th - Janet Coles, LPGA golfer
6th - Paul Steigerwald, American sports announcer
11th - M V Narasimha Rao, cricketer (Indian leg-spin all-rounder 1978-79)
11th - Yashpal Sharma, cricketer (Indian right-handed batsman early 80')
14th - Mark Fidrych, American baseball player
19th - Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
20th - William Quinn Buckner, Phoenix Ill, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1976)
21st - Archie Griffin, NFL runningback (won 2 Heisman Trophies, Ohio State)
22nd - John Colwell, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1978 Simon Fraser)
24th - Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
25th - Gilbert "Gibus" Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist
26th - Sarah Lundy, horse trainer
27th - Derek Warwick, race car driver
27th - John Lloyd, England, tennis star (former husband of Chris Everet)
