1925 | Sports
Sports
The Wood Memorial introduced at New York in April is a test for 3-year-old thoroughbreds prior to the Kentucky Derby in May.
(Jean) René LaCoste, 19, (Fr) wins in men's singles at Wimbledon, Suzanne Lenglen in women's singles; Bill Tilden wins in men's singles at Forest Hills, Helen Wills in women's singles.
Former Columbia baseball star Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig, 22, joins the New York Yankees as a first baseman and begins a 14-year career of 2,130 consecutive games in which he will have a batting average of .340 (see 1939).
Connie Mack pays a record $100,600 to acquire "Lefty" Grove for the Philadelphia Athletics. Maryland-born pitcher Robert Moses Grove, 25, has played for the minor-league Baltimore Orioles and now begins a 17-year major-league career in which he will strike out 2,266 batters and record a lifetime earned run average of 3.06.
The Pittsburgh Pirates win the World Series, defeating the Washington Senators 4 games to 3. Former New York Giants (and, later, Cincinnati Reds) pitcher Christy Mathewson has died of tuberculosis at a Saranac Lake, N.Y., sanatorium October 7 at age 45 in the midst of the Series (he was gassed during World War II and his career ended in 1920).
Football authority Walter C. Camp dies at New York March 14 at age 65.
The New York Giants professional football team is founded by Timothy J. Mara.
New York's Madison Square Garden comes down after a 35-year career in which it has housed prizefights, 6-day bicycle races, rodeos (beginning in 1923), horse shows, and last year's Democratic National Convention. A new Garden opens November 28 on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th streets; designed by Tex Rickard's architect Thomas W. Lamb and built at a cost of $5.6 million, it will be used until February 1968 for circuses, hockey games, horse shows, basketball games, ice shows, political rallies, and track meets, but it is designed principally for boxing and wrestling matches and has poor sightlines for other events.