1904 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Toronto Marlboroughs in 2 games1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)1930 Brilliant West
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1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleve for $15,0001932 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of
1874 Major Walter Clopton Winfield patents a game called ”sphairistike” (lawn tennis)1952 Following his Nordic combined gold medal in St. Moritz (1948), Heikki Hasu takes
1860 Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time between the Eagles and the Red Rovers1888 âFather of American Golfâ? John Reid first demonstrates
1931 Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game1948 NASCAR is incorporated.1951 South Carolina House of Representatives urges ”Shoeless Joe” Jackson be
1912 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
1928 II Winter Olympic Games close at St Moritz, Switzerland1928 Gillis Grafström of Sweden wins his 3rd consecutive Olympic men’s figure skating gold medal at
1899 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 3-2 to sweep series, 2-0 for CAHL1928 USA 2 beats USA 1 by
1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents ”draisine” (early bicycle)1882 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground1927 Toronto Maple Leafs beat the
1899 Future England cricket captain Pelham Warner scores an unbeaten 132 on his Test debut in a 32 run win over South Africa in the