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Friday, August 31, 2018

S&H Farm Supply "On This Day In History" presented by Godfather's Pizza, State Farm Agent Jim Roebuck, Murney & Associates, & Country Dodge

   


  

August 31st ...

Winning is the name of the game. The more you win, the less you get fired.- Bep Guidolin, Boston Bruins coach

  • 1881 - First US tennis championships (Newport, Rhode Island).
  • 1891 11th U.S. Men's National Championship: Oliver Campbell beats Clarence Hobart (2-6, 7-5, 7-9, 6-1, 6-2)
  • 1894 - Philadelphia Phillies' Billy Hamilton steals 7 bases.
  • 1895 - First pro football game (quarterback John Brallier is paid $10 and won 12-0).
  • 1900 - Brooklyn Dodgers' pitcher Brickyard Kennedy walks six straight Philadelphia Phillies' players.
  • 1904 24th U.S. Men's National Championship: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (10-8, 6-4, 9-7)
  • 1905 25th U.S. Men's National Championship: Beals Wright beats Holcombe Ward (6-2, 6-1, 11-9)
  • 1909 A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
  • 1909 Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
  • 1913 Soccer club PSV forms in Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • 1915 - Chicago White Sox pitcher Jimmy Lavender no-hits New York Giants, 2-0.
  • 1918 Boston Red Sox, win earliest AL pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
   


 

  • 1934 - First football all star game-Chicago Bears tie collegians 0-0 in Chicago.
  • 1935 - First national skeet championship (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA).
  • 1935 - Chicago White Sox player Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0.
  • 1938 5th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 28, Washington 16 (74,250)
  • 1947 NY Giants set season record for HRs by a club 183 (en route to 221)
                 

            
  
  • 1950 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Gil Hodges hits four home runs and a single in a game versus Boston Braves.
  • 1954 Cincinnati 1st baseman Ted Kluszewski hits 2 HRs in a 9-3 loss v Phillies; 1st Redleg to ever hit 40 MLB HRs, en route to season total 49
  • 1959 48th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in New York (3-2)
  • 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria)
  • 1968 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
  • 1968 Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over.
                            

      

       
  • 1970 - US defeats German Federal Republic for tennis' Davis Cup.
  • 1971 Adrienne Beames runs female world record marathon (2:46:30)
  • 1972 Lasse Viren runs Olympic/world record 10,000m (27:38.4)
  • 1972 - Olga Korbut, USSR, wins Olympic gold medal in gymnastics.
  • 1972 American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 in the 100m in Munich, having already won the 200m in world record time 2:00.70
  • 1972 American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team of John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter & Mark Spitz swim a world record 7:35.78 to beat West Germany for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
  • 1972 Australian swimmer Gail Neall with a world record 5:02.97 wins the 400m individual medley gold medal at the Munich Olympics
  • 1973 1st heavyweight championship fight in Japan (Foreman beats Roman)
  • 1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open Tennis
  • 1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green

                     



     



  • 1980 80th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Hal Sutton
  • 1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, v England at Lord's
  • 1983 - Edwin Moses of USA sets the 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz.
  • 1984 - Pinklin Thomas defeats Tim Witherspoon for the WBC heavyweight title.
  • 1985 - Prakas sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois.
  • 1985 Angel Cordero becomes 3rd jockey to ride horses earning over $100 M
  • 1987 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)



   



  

  • 1990 Ken Griffey Sr & Jr are 1st father & son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners
  • 1991 Houston QB David Klingler sets NCAA record with 6 touchdown passes in the 2nd quarter as the Cougars clobbered Louisiana Tech 73-3
  • 1993 Minnesota Twins beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 in 22 innings
  • 1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov
  • 1996 - The Big 12 Conference is inaugurated with a football game between Kansas State University and Texas Tech University in Manhattan, Kansas.
  • 1997 Don Mattingly's #23 is retired by NY Yankees
  • 1997 Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268
  • 1999 Dino Ciccarelli retires from the NHL





           



      



  

     

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