1933 - Sports

Sports

The Augusta National Golf Club course designed by Scottish golf-course architect Alister MacKenzie and Bobby Jones opens on what once was a Georgia indigo plantation and will be the scene of major tournaments for generations (see Masters, 1934). The 365-acre course will be redesigned in 1947 by English-born golf course architect Robert Trent Jones, now 26, who is no relation to Bobby but will often collaborate with him.

Former heavyweight champion James J. Corbett dies at Bayside, N.Y., February 18 at age 66.

Italian prizefighter Primo Carnera, 26, of Argentina wins the world heavyweight title June 29. The 260-pound fighter knocks out Jack Sharkey in the sixth round of a championship bout at Long Island City, N.Y.

John Herbert Crawford, 25, wins in men's singles at Wimbledon, Helen Wills Moody in women's singles; Frederick J. "Fred" Perry, 24, (Br) wins in men's singles at Forest Hills, Helen Jacobs in women's singles.

An American League team wins baseball's first All-Star Game July 6 at Chicago's Comiskey Field, defeating the National League 4 to 2.

The New York Giants win the World Series, defeating the Washington Senators 4 games to 1.

The Philadelphia Eagles football team is founded by entrepreneur Bert Bell, 38, who heads a syndicate that has paid $2,500 for the National Football League franchise owned by the 9-year-old Frankford Yellowjackets; the Pittsburgh Steelers team has its beginnings July 8 in the Pittsburgh Pirates team founded by local horserace bettor and boxing promoter Arthur Joseph "Art" Rooney, 32, who has won $2,500 in one weekend at the track and uses it to buy the National Football League franchise. His team loses to the New York Giants 23 to 2 before a crowd of 25,000 in its opener at Forbes Field.