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US boxer Jack Dempsey defeats Jess Willard for the world heavyweight title, sending him from the ring with a broken jaw
Boston Red Sox sell their star player, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees for $125,000
The schooner Bluenose begins a long series of international racing victories for Canada
US golfer Walter Hagen wins the first of his four victories in the British Open
Britain's most prestigious steeplechase, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, is run for the first time
Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller wins three Olympic gold medals in the Paris games, together with a bronze in water polo
The British rugby team touring South Africa are for the first time called the Lions
British jockey Gordon Richards becomes champion jockey for the first of 26 times
The England cricketer Jack Hobbs makes the highest score of his career, 316 not out for Surrey against Middlesex
Ely Culbertson devotes his playing skill and his promotional abilities to the new contract version of bridge
US golfer Walter Hagen wins his fifth PGA Championship, and the fourth in succession
In only his third Test match, 20-year-old Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a century
Norwegian figure-skater Sonja Henie wins the first of three individual Olympic gold medals in successive games
Baseball star Ty Cobb retires with a career record of 2245 runs, that will remain unbeaten into the twenty-first century
US golfer Bobby Jones retires after winning his thirteenth major in eight years
The New Zealand racehorse Phar Lap wins huge popularity after an easy victory in the Melbourne Cup
16-year-old English footballer Stanley Matthews plays his first League game for Stoke City
US athlete Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson breaks four world records in one afternoon in Evanston, Illinois
English fast-bowler Harold Larwood causes outrage using the 'body-line' attack, devised by his captain, Douglas Jardine, in Test matches against Australia
British tennis player Fred Perry wins the first of three consecutive Wimbledon singles titles
US athlete Jesse Owens sets three world records and equals a fourth within the space of less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan
At the Berlin Olympics, attended by Hitler, the African-American athlete Jesse Owens sets three new Olympic records and equals a fourth
Joe Louis, 'The Brown Bomber', defeats James J. Braddock to become world heavyweight champion
Gloucestershire batsman Wally Hammond becomes captain of the England Test team
Yorkshire batsman Len Hutton scores a record 364 in a Test match against Australia at the Oval
