Today In Sports History 8/7

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

Baseball

• In 1903 Tommy Corcoran sets MLB record for shortstops when he records 14 assists in Cincinnati’s 4 – 2 win vs St. Louis Cardinals.

Basketball

• In 1936 twenty-two nations line-up as the first basketball competition in the Olympics Games starts in Berlin; Estonia beats France 34-29 in the first game.

Football

• In 1964 31st NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17.

Golf

• In 1960 Arnold Palmer’s 20th PGA Tour win; rallies from a 5-stroke deficit to enter a playoff, then beats Jack Fleck and Bill Collins to win the Insurance City Open.

Miscellaneous

• In 1970 the first all-computer chess championship is conducted in New York and won by CHESS 3.0 (CDC 6400), a program written by Slate, Atkin & Gorlen at Northwestern University.

Olympics 

• In 1948 American swimmer Jimmy McLane wins the 1,500m for his second gold medal at the London Olympics (4 x 200m freestyle relay), marks a US clean sweep of every men’s swimming gold medal at the Games.