S&H Farm Supply "On This Day In History" presented by F5 Storm Shelters, Springfield Family Restaurant, Missouri Farm Bureau Kevin Cheffey, & Great Southern Bank

  



September 4th .....

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
- Jean-Claude Killy

• 1881 1st US Men's National Championship, Newport R.I.: Richard Sears wins inaugural event beating William E. Glyn 6-0, 6-3, 6-2
• 1889 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: Henry Slocum defends his title beating Quincy Shaw 6-3, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2
• 1903 American yacht Reliance (largest gaff-rigged cutter ever built) defends America's Cup for the NYYC beating UK challenger Shamrock III off the New Jersey shore for a 3-0 series win
• 1904 For the only time in Olympic Games history, there is a throw-off in the discus final after Americans Martin Sheridan & Ralph Rose tie with a best throw of 128' 10½" in St. Louis; Sheridan wins with 127' 10¼"
• 1908 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns KOs Australian Bill Lang in 6 rounds in Melbourne in a warmup fight for his famous title bout with Jack Johnson

   

 

• 1911 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Newport R.I.: William Larned wins his 5th consecutive & 7th overall US title; beats Maurice McLoughlin 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
• 1918 US Men's National Tennis Championship, Forest Hills NY: Robert Lindley Murray successfully defends title; beats Bill Tilden 6-3, 6-1, 7-5
• 1921 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, New York: Watson Washburn and William Norris win their doubles rubber to clinch US win over Japan; Americans go on to win 5-0
• 1923 - New York Yankees pitcher Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia Athletics, 2-0.
• 1937 - Doris Kopsky becomes first NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4). 

                 

            

                              

• 1941 - New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox 6-3 and clinch their 12th and earliest pennant.
• 1949 - Marie Robie sinks 393 yard hole-in-one (first hole in Furnace Brook).
• 1949 - The longest pro tennis match in history was played when Pancho Gonzales and Ted Schroeder played 67 games in five sets. The record was broken in 2010. 
• 1953 - New York Yankees become first team to win five consecutive championships.
• 1954 - Peter B Cortese of the US achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 pounds; 22 pounds, over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania.
• 1966 - Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no first downs, winning 45-7.
• 1972 - US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals.
• 1978 - New York Yankees' pitcher Ron Guidry wins his 20th (on way to 25-3 season).

      

           

• 1981 - Seattle Mariners beat Boston Red Sox, 8-7, in 20 innings (started September 3).
• 1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship.
• 1983 - Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed record (119.36 mph).
• 1985 - Igor Paklin of the USSR sets a new high jump world record at 2.41 metres.
• 1985 - New York Mets' Gary Carter's two home runs ties record of five home runs in two games.
• 1988 - Phoenix Cardinals play first regular-season NFL game.

     

       

• 1993 - The Essendon Football Club wins its 15th AFL premiership over rivals Carlton Football Club.
• 1993 - Jim Abbott, pitcher for the New York Yankees, pitched a no-hitter. Abbott had been born without a right hand. 
• 2002 - The Oakland Athletics won their AL-record 20th straight game. The A's gave up an 11-run lead during the game and then won the game on a Scott Hatteberg home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. The game hosted the largest crowd (55,528) ever for a regular season game at the Coliseum. 
• 2002 - St. Louis manager Tony La Russa got his 1,905th major league win. He tied Casey Stengal for eighth place.