S&H Farm Supply "On This Day In History" presented by Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance-Mark Young, Soudenvision, Villars Automotive Center & Classic Rock Coffee

   

  

August 30th ...

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success. 

- Charlie Finley

• 1884 Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey wins middleweight title in 1st fight with boxing gloves
• 1887 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears beats Henry Slocum 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
• 1892 12th U.S. Men's National Championship: Oliver Campbell beats Fred Hovey (7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5)
• 1904 Thomas Hicks wins 3rd Olympics marathon (3:28:53.0) (40 km)
1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers. 
• 1906 - Hal Chase becomes first New York Yankees' player to hit three triples in a game.
• 1910 - New York Yankees' Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleveland Naps 5-0 in 11 innings.

   

 

• 1912 - Saint Louis Browns' pitcher Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1.
• 1913 - Philadelphia Phillies lead New York Giants 8-6 in top of 9th, fans in bleachers try to distract Giants, umpire forefeits game to Giants, later overruled.
• 1916 - Boston Red Sox' Dutch Leonard no-hits Saint Louis Browns, 4-0.
• 1918 - The New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 1-0. The game only took 57 minutes to play. 
• 1922 Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922
• 1927 41st U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills Moody beats Betty Nuthall Shoemaker (6-1, 6-4)
• 1937 - Joe Louis won a 15-round decision over Tommy Farr in his first defense of his heavyweight title. 
• 1939 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456)
• 1939 - New York Yankees' Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph).

                 

            

      

• 1941 - Saint Louis Cardinals' pitcher Lon Warneke no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 2-0.
• 1944 11th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 24, All-Stars 21 (48,769)
• 1945 12th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 19, All-Stars 7 (92,753)
• 1960 Boston 2nd baseman Pete Runnels goes 6-for-7
• 1961 - Baltimore Orioles' player Jack Fisher walks 12 Los Angeles Angels' players in a 9-inning game.
• 1964 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open
• 1965 - Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball.
• 1966 - Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) hit home runs from both sides of the plate against St. Louis. 
• 1969 69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk

                        

      

       

• 1972 Japanese breaststroker Nobutaka Taguchi beats American pair Tom Bruce & John Hencken to win the 100m gold medal in world record 1:04.94 at the Munich Olympic Games
• 1972 Australian teenage swimmer Shane Gould with a world record 4:19.04 for the 400m, wins her second of 3 gold medals at the Munich Olympics
• 1972 American women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Shirley Babashoff, Jane Barkman, Jenny Kemp & Sandy Neilson beats East Germany by just 0.36 to win gold at the Munich Olympics; world record 3:55.19
• 1972 Amidst Olga Korbut mania at the Munich Olympics, Soviet team mate Ludmilla Tourischeva wins the gymnastics individual all-round competition, her 2nd gold medal of the Games
• 1972 Slalom canoeing is introduced at the Munich Olympics with East Germany winning all 4 events
• 1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
• 1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses
• Sport awardTennis Open
• 1979 Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Năstase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Năstase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated

                     

     

• 1984 - Jim Rice of the Boston Red Sox makes his 33rd double play of the season establishing a new major league mark.
• 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame. 
• 1986 Gelindo Bordin wins Stuttgart marathon (2:10:54)
• 1987 - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100m in world record 9.83 seconds.
• 1987 - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump women's record (6 feet 10.25 inches).
• 1987 - Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57).
• 1987 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
• 1987 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
• Sports record brokenBaseball Record
• 1987 Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
• 1987 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
• 1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m after Ben Johnson is disqualified
• 1988 Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games

   



  

• 1990 - Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Junior become first father and son to play on the same baseball team (Seattle Mariners).
• 1991 - Dan O'Brien sets US decathalon record with 8,812 points.
• 1991 - France beats US by narrowest Ryder Cup margin - 14.5 to 13.5.
• 1991 - Mike Powell of the US sets long jump record at 29 feet 4.5 inches.
• 1992 - Michael Schumacher wins his first Grand Prix car race in Belgium at Spa-Francorchamps in a Benetton-Ford race car.
• 1992 92nd US Golf Amateur Championship won by Justin Leonard

           

• 1994 Largest US Tennis Open single session (total) 23,618
• 1997 1st WNBA Championship: Houston Comets beat NY Liberty
• 1997 Greg Rudaski is 1st to serve (2) 141 MPH serves in a match (US Open)
• 2001 - Ashely Martin became the first woman to play in a Division I football game. She kicked three extra points in the game. 
• 2002 - Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig announces the players union and owners have reached a settlement on a new four-year agreement, avoiding a strike.
• 2006 Greg Maddux wins his 330th career game
• 2012 Andy Roddick announces he will retire following the U.S. Open