1930 - Sports

Sports

Gallant Fox wins racing's Triple Crown by taking the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes.

The Irish Sweepstakes (Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes) authorized by the government at Dublin benefits the nation's hospitals. A private trust operates the lottery worldwide, ticket stubs are returned to Ireland, where they are drawn from a barrel and matched with the names of horses running in a major British or Irish race, with the largest prizes going to ticket holders whose horses have come in first, second, or third, but many tickets are counterfeited, and their sale is illegal in the United States (they will nevertheless be smuggled in and more revenue will come from illegal sales in America than from legal sales anywhere else) (see 1987).

Bobby Jones wins golf's "Grand Slam," taking the British and U.S. Open and Amateur tournaments in a feat that no other golfer will match in this century.

Binghamton, N.Y.-born world heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey (originally Josef Paul Cukoshay), 27, fouls German contender Max Schmeling, 24, in the fourth round of a title bout at New York June 12. Schmeling wins the title but will lose it back to Sharkey in 1932.

Bill Tilden, now 37, wins in men's singles at Wimbledon, Helen Wills Moody in women's singles; John H. Doeg, 21, wins in men's singles at Forest Hills, Betty Nuthall, 19, (Br) in women's singles (the first non-American U.S. champion).

The Philadelphia Athletics win the World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 2.

Uruguay wins the first World Cup football (soccer) competition, organized by the Federation Internationale des Associations Football headed by Jules Rimet, 57, of France. (The Coupe du Monde is officially the Jules Rimet Trophy.) Playing against Argentina at Montevideo's new Centenario Stadium, the home team wins 4 to 2, disappointing tens of thousands of Argentinians who have crossed the river to see the game but elating Uruguayans. The sport that has become the working man's passion in Britain and the rest of Europe gains popularity in Latin America as football fever spreads throughout the southern hemisphere.

Sir Thomas Lipton loses his final bid to gain the America's Cup as the U.S. defender Enterprise defeats his Shamrock V 4 to 0.