- Jan 2 Brookyln Superbas Baseball Club President Charles Ebbets announces purchase of 4.5 acres of land to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 23,000; Ebbets Field opens in 1913
Australasia Win
Jan 2 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Christchurch, NZ: Norman Brookes & Alfred Dunlop beat Americans Maurice McLoughlin & Beals Wright 6-4, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Australasia unassailable 3-0 lead; win 4-0
- Feb 9 US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
- Feb 10 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG
- Feb 13 Olympic boxing gold medallist Johnny Douglas takes 5/46 as England cricket team regains Ashes with an innings and 225 run 4th Test win over Australia in Melbourne
- Feb 16 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
- Feb 20 Argentina beats the MCC in their inaugural 1st-class cricket fixture at the Buenos Aires Cricket Club; lose the second and third games of the series
Trumper's Final Test
Feb 28 Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground
- Mar 11 First Stanley Cup challenge game to be played in three 20-minute periods (formerly 30-minute halves), Quebec beats Moncton, 9-3 on way to series sweep
- Mar 12 Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria - Botev Plovdiv
- Mar 13 Stanley Cup, Quebec Skating Rink, Quebec City, Quebec: Quebec Bulldogs rout Moncton Victorias (NB), 8-0 for a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series
- Mar 29 74th Grand National: Ernie Piggott wins aboard 4/1 co-favourite Jerry M at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England
- Apr 9 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
- Apr 15 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan in race record 2:21:18.2
- Apr 16 Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
- Apr 20 Fenway Park officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
- Apr 20 Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens, Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 6-5
- Apr 26 1st homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox)
- May 11 38th Kentucky Derby: Carol H Shilling aboard Worth wins in 2:09.4
- May 15 37th Preakness: Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6
- May 18 Philadelphia Athletics rout Detroit Tigers, 24-2 at Shibe Park; Tigers use amateurs in protest at Ty Cobbs suspension from the game
- May 19 AL President Ban Johnson tells Tigers if they continue protest of Ty Cobb's suspension, they will be banned from baseball
- May 28 Australian cricket spin bowler Jimmy Matthews takes 2 hat-tricks on same day in Triangular Tournament v South Africa at Old Trafford (3/16, 3/38); only player to achieve the feat
- May 30 Indianapolis 500: Joe Dawson in the American-manufactured, 4-cylinder National, wins in race record 6:21:06; time is 21:02 faster than previous 1911 record
- Jun 1 Dutch soccer club Stormvogels forms in Ijmuiden; merges with VSV to form Telstar in 1963
- Jun 13 NY Giant Christy Mathewson wins his 300th game
- Jun 15 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Mary Browne beats Eleonora Sears 6-4, 6-2 for her first of 3 straight US singles titles
- Jun 20 NY Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12
52nd British Men's Open
Jun 25 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Ted Ray wins wire-to-wire by 4 shots from defending champion Harry Vardon
Baseball Record
Jul 3 NY Giants pitcher Rube Marquard ties Tim Keefe's 1888 MLB record 19 game win-streak with 2-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; has 21 with 2 end-of-season in 1911
Boxing Title Fight
Jul 4 Jack Johnson beats "Fireman" Jim Flynn by disqualification in 9 in Las Vegas to retain world heavyweight boxing title
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: English badminton champion Ethel Larcombe wins her first and only major tennis title beating Charlotte Cooper 6-3, 6-1
- Jul 6 Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
- Jul 6 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm, Sweden; events conducted prior to the ceremony dating back to 5 May
Olympic Gold
Jul 7 American athlete Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
Sports History
Jul 8 Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 8 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Anthony Wilding makes it 3 straight Wimbledon singles crowns beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- Jul 11 There are 6 medallists in the Stockholm Olympic pole vault; American Harry Babcock takes gold (3.95m); countrymen Frank Nelson and Marc Wright dead-heat for silver; 3-man dead-heat for bronze
- Jul 14 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
- Jul 15 American athlete Jim Thorpe is placed in top 4 in all 10 events, for an Olympic record 8,413 points to win the Decathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
- Jul 18 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
- Jul 20 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
- Jul 22 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in Stockholm, Sweden
- Jul 28 10th Tour de France won by Odile Defraye of Belgium
- Aug 2 US Open Men's Golf, CC of Buffalo: John McDermott successfully defends title by 2 strokes from Tom McNamara
- Aug 15 Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
Sports History
Aug 20 Washington Senators future Baseball HOF pitcher Walter Johnson wins AL-record 15th straight, beating Cleveland Naps, 4-2; in nightcap Carl Cushion no-hits Naps, 2-0 in 6 innings
- Aug 24 Ticker-tape parade held in NYC for Jim Thorpe and victorious US Olympians
- Aug 26 MLB pitcher Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends
US Men's Tennis Open
Aug 26 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Newport, RI: Maurice McLoughlin wins first of 2 straight US singles titles; beats Wallace F. Johnson 3-6, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2
- Aug 30 St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1
Baseball Record
Sep 11 Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins steals MLB record 6 bases in the Athletics' 9-7 win over Detroit Tigers at Navin Field
- Sep 15 Boston Red Sox pitcher "Smoky" Joe Wood ties then MLB record of 16 straight wins with a 2-1 victory over St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park
Sports History
Sep 17 Center fielder Casey Stengel breaks in with Brooklyn & hits 4 singles
- Sep 19 Soccer team NAC (Noad Advendo Combination) forms in Breda
- Sep 22 Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins becomes only player in MLB history to steal 6 bases in one game for a second time as A's beat St. Louis Browns, 8-2
- Oct 5 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Athletics, 3 - 0 for their 105th win of the MLB season, an AL record until 1927 NY Yankees (110)
- Oct 5 NY Highlanders last game at Hilltop stadium; beat Washington, 8-6; Brooklyn Dodgers last game at Washington Park; lose 1-0 v NY Giants
Sports History
Oct 15 Red Sox Tris Speaker's makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield
- Oct 16 Baseball World Series: Boston Red Sox beat NY Giants, 3-2 at Fenway Park to clinch a 4-3-1 series win; series extended to 8 games as one game tied due to darkness
- Oct 18 Black boxer Jack Johnson arrested for violating the Mann Act for "transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes" due to his relationship with white woman Lucille Cameron, allegedly a prostitute. Later convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to a year in prison.
- Oct 20 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
- Nov 30 CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Alerts win their only title; beat Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
- Nov 30 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Melbourne, Australia: James Cecil Parke beats Rodney Heaths 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 to give British Isles 3-2 victory over defending champions Australasia
- Dec 1 Boston Braves MLB franchise owner James Gaffney buys the Allston Golf Club on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston with a plan to construct a ball park there; ground breaking for Braves Field starts on March 20, 1915
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