Events in Sports History in 1924

Jan 1 10th Rose Bowl: Washington ties Navy, 14-14

1st Winter Olympics

Jan 25 1st Winter Olympic Games open in Chamonix, France

Einar Landvik, Nordic skier from Norway, competes in the first-ever Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

Jan 26 American skater Charles Jewtraw claims the first ever Winter Olympic gold medal; wins 500m speed skating event in 44.0s at the Chamonix Games in France
Jan 26 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis. Melbourne: James Anderson wins 2nd of 3 Australasian titles; beats fellow Australian Richard Schlesinger 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3
Jan 26 Australasian Championships Women's Tennis, Melbourne: All-Australian final; Sylvia Lance Harper beats Esna Boyd Robertson 6-3, 3-6, 8-6

Thunberg's First Gold

Jan 26 Clas Thunberg of Finland claims his first of 5 gold medals when he wins the 5,000m speed skating in 2:20.8 at the Chamonix Winter Olympics

Jan 27 Clas Thunberg of Finland claims 3 gold medals in one day when he wins the 1,500m, 5,000m and all-round speed skating events at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; won 5,000m the day before
Jan 29 Swiss team of Denis Vaucher (C), Alfred Aufdenblatten, Antoine Julen & Alfons Julen win the military patrol gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first version of the biathlon
Jan 30 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins men's figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; first to successfully defend his Summer Olympic title (1920) at the Winter Games
Jan 30 Great Britain clinch inaugural Olympic curling gold medal with a 46-4 win over France at the Chamonix Games
Jan 30 Norway’s Thorleif Haug claims first of 3 gold medals at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; wins 50k cross country in a Norwegian sweep of the medals; also 18k and Nordic combined champion
Jan 31 Austrians Helene Engelmann & Alfred Berger win the pairs skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; beat Finnish pair Ludowika Jakobsson & Walter Jakobsson by just 0.39 points
Jan 31 Herma Szabo of Austria wins the ladies figure skating gold medal at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; only women's event at the Games
Feb 2 Norway’s Thorleif Haug takes the cross-country double at the Chamonix Winter Olympics when he wins the 18k event; Haug also 50k gold medalist
Feb 3 Canada beats United States, 6-1 to retain the Olympic ice hockey gold medal (won at 1920 Summer Games) at the Chamonix Games; Canadian LW Harry Watson top scores with 46 points
Feb 3 Switzerland claims the inaugural Olympic bobsleigh gold medal at the Chamonix Games, ahead of Great Britain and Belgium
Feb 4 Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway wins ski jumping gold at the Chamonix Winter Olympics; in 1936 he earns a silver medal in sailing at Berlin Summer Games
Feb 4 Norway sweeps the medals in the Nordic combined event at the inaugural Chamonix Winter Olympics; Thorleif Haug wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Thoralf Strømstad & Johan Grøttumsbråten
Feb 5 1st Winter Olympic Games close at Chamonix, France

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Feb 10 Bucky Harris at 27, becomes youngest major league baseball manager (Washington Senators)

Baseball Player and Manager Bucky Harris

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Feb 17 American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller sets 100m world freestyle record 57.4s at Miami, Florida

Feb 18 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard

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Feb 18 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger

Feb 25 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
Mar 11 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
Mar 25 Stanley Cup Final, Ottawa Auditorium, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) beat Calgary Tigers (WCHL), 3-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
Mar 28 83rd Grand National: Bob Trudgill wins aboard 25/1 shot Master Robert; last GN from a general riding start, now-familiar 'tape' introduced the following year.
Apr 10 Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
Apr 11 1st men's college swimming championships begin

28th Boston Marathon

Apr 21 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar for the third consecutive year in 2:29:40.2; 4th race victory

Apr 27 Antwerp soccer tie Belgium-Netherlands 1-1
May 4 VIII Summer Olympic Games open at Olympic Stadium of Colombes, Paris, France
May 12 49th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2
May 17 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
May 30 Indianapolis 500: Lora Lawrence Corum starts the race and is relieved midway by Joe Boyer who drives to victory; both drivers credited as "co-winners"

28th US Open

Jun 6 US Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Unknown Englishman Cyril Walker wins his only major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up and defending champion Bobby Jones

56th Belmont

Jun 7 56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8

Mallory Disappears from Everest

Jun 7 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit

Jun 13 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
Jun 14 Test Cricket debuts of English players Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate in 1st Test England v South Africa at Edgbaston

Nurmi Runs Three World Records

Jun 19 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m of 3:52.6; 50 minutes later sets 5,000m WR 14:28.2; also runs WR 3-mile time 14:02.00 within that event in Finnish Olympic trials in Helsinki

Runner nicknamed the Flying Finn Paavo Nurmi

59th British Men's Open

Jun 27 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Liverpool GC: American Walter Hagen wins his 2nd Open Championships, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Ernest Whitcombe

Jun 28 Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's
Jul 4 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Kitty McKane of England beats American Helen Wills 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 for her 1st of 2 Wimbledon singles titles

Wimbledon Men's Tennis

Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In the first all-French final Jean Borotra beats René Lacoste 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4

Jul 7 American Robert LeGendre sets then long jump world record at 25' 5½" in Paris, France
Jul 13 Albin Stenroos wins Olympic marathon (2:41:22.6)
Jul 16 NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
Jul 17 St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
Jul 20 18th Tour de France won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy
Jul 27 VIII Summer Olympic Games close in Paris, France
Jul 29 Paul Runyan wins PGA golf championship
Aug 1 MLB Brooklyn Robins pitcher Dazzy Vance strikes out a MLB record 7 consecutive batters, and 14 overall in 4-0 win over visiting Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field
Aug 2 A's 1st baseman Joe Hauser sets AL record of 14 total bases in a game; 3 HRs and a double as Philadelphia beats Cleveland Indians, 12-4 at Dunn Field

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Aug 3 Dutch track cyclist Piet Moeskops wins his 4th consecutive UCI world sprint championship in Paris

US Open Women's Tennis

Aug 16 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills Moody beats 7-time winner Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6-1, 6-3

Baseball History

Aug 25 MLB Washington Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 inn

Aug 31 Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)

US Men's Tennis Open

Sep 2 US National Championship Men's Tennis, Forest Hills NY: Bill Tilden wins 5th straight US singles title; beats Bill Johnston for 3rd consecutive year 6-1, 9-7, 6-2

Sep 6 Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships

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Sep 10 New York Giants rip Boston Braves, 22-1 at the Polo Grounds; future Baseball HOF infielder Frankie Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out

Sep 12 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Philadelphia, PA: Bill Johnston & Bill Tilden clinch US 5th straight title beating Australians Pat O'Hara Wood & Gerald Patterson 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-1 for 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
Sep 13 19th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Philadelphia (5-0)
Sep 14 Walter Johnson selected as the American League MVP

Baseball Record

Sep 16 St. Cardinals future Baseball HOF first baseman Jim Bottomley sets MLB all-time single game RBI record of 12 in a 17-3 rout of Brooklyn Robins at Ebbets Field

Sep 20 Carl Mays is 1st pitcher to win 20 games seasons for 3 different teams
Sep 20 Cub's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats NY Giants to win 300th game
Sep 20 PGA Championship Men's Golf, French Lick CC: 1921 champion Walter Hagen beats Englishman Jim Barnes 2-up in the final

World Auto Speed Record

Sep 25 Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 miles per hour

Sep 29 Senators clinch pennant, finishing 2 games in front of Yankees
Oct 1 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs world record 4 mile (19:15.4) & 5 mile (24:06.2) at Vilpuri, Russia
Oct 1 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis bans NY Giants outfielder Jimmy O'Connell & coach Cozy Dolan from World Series after they attempt to bribe Phillies shortstop Heinie Sand
Oct 4 New York Giants became first team to play in 4 consecutive World Series; win Game 1, 4-3 at Griffith Field; lose series, 4-3 in manager John McGraw's 9th and final WS appearance
Oct 10 Baseball World Series: Washington Senators edge NY Giants, 4-3 in 12 innings in Game 7 at Griffith Stadium to take series, 4-3; Sens' first World Series victory

Red Grange's Amazing Game

Oct 18 Harold "Red" Grange, finest collegiate football game (4 long TD runs)

Oct 20 1st Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
Oct 28 White Sox beat NY Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
Nov 1 Boston Bruins officially join the NHL, becoming the first United States based team to enter the League; Montreal Maroons also join NHL, but only last until 1938
Nov 4 California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)
Nov 16 Cleveland Bulldogs lose, 12-7 to Frankford Yellow Jackets at Dunn Field; ends 31-game undefeated streak; NFL and major-league football record
Nov 29 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Queen's University wins 3rd straight Championship; defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
Nov 29 NHL's Montreal Forum opens
Nov 30 National Football League Championship: Cleveland Bulldogs (7-1-1) [formerly Canton] win first past the post title
Dec 1 Boston Bruins beat fellow expansion team Montreal Maroons, 2-1 at Boston Arena; first NHL game to be played in the United States
Dec 5 Hamilton Tiger Red Green scores 5 goals to beat Tor Maple Leafs 10-5
Dec 10 Agreement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
Dec 17 The Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Senators battle out the first scoreless game in NHL history; Jake Forbes (Hamilton) and Alex Connell (Ottawa) each record shutouts