Today In Sports History 8/18

Our past has shaped the present by many things in history including sports, here is how sports marked our history today.

Baseball

• In 1931 Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game

Golf

• In 1922 at the PGA Championship, 20-year old US Open champion Gene Sarazen defeats Emmet French, 4 & 3 in the final

Miscellaneous

• In 1914 Swiss track and road bicycle racer Oscar Egg sets new hour world record of 44.247 km at the outdoor Vélodrome Buffalo in Paris, record stands until 1933

Tennis

• In 1923 at the US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6-2, 6-1 for her first of 7 US singles crowns