THIS WEEKEND IN SPORTS HISTORY
Saturday
1877 — Ottawa Rough Riders first outside competition versus Britannia.
1956 — Brooklyn Dodgers’ Carl Erskine’s second no-hitter, beats New York Giants, 3-0.
1957 — Race car driver A.J. Foyt gets his first professional victory, in a U.S. Automobile Club (USAC) midget car race in Kansas City, Missouri.
1970 — Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks, hits his 500th home run.
1973 — 6th ABA championship: Indiana Pacers beat Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3.
1974 — 28th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Milwaukee Bucks, 4 games to 3.
1976 — Bayern Munich wins 21st Europe Cup 1.
1979 — Chris Evert’s 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end. 1982 — FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II. 1982 — U.S. Football League forms. 1984 — Joe Lucius scores his 13th hole-in-one on the same hole. 1986 — Fred Markham (U.S.), unpaced and unaided by wind, is first to pedal 65 mph on a level course, at Big Sand Flat, Calif.
1993 — Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II.
1996 — 42nd McDonald’s LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies. 2004 — At Dodger Stadium, Alex Cora of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim hits foul off 14 consecutive pitches, then hits the 18th thrown for a two-run home run.
Sunday
1845 — More than 50,000 attend a horse race at Union course in Queen’s County, N.Y., seeing Peytona of Tennessee beat Fashion, champ of the North.
1905 — James J. Jeffries retires as boxing champion.
1911 — 37th Kentucky Derby: George Archibald aboard Meridian wins in 2:05.
1952 — Minor-league Bristol pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9 innings.
1953 — New York Giants’ Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each hit two home runs and a triple.
1954 — Robin Roberts gives up a home run, then retires the next 27 men in a row.
1955 — Mickey Mantle hits three consecutive home runs of at least 463 feet.
1958 — Stan Musial is 8th Major League Baseball batter to get 3,000 hits.
1967 — New York Yankees’ Mickey Mantle hits career home run No. 500, off Baltimore Orioles’ Stu Miller.
1967 — Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries.
1973 — Tennis hustler Bobby Riggs, age 55, beats Margaret Smith Court 6-2, 6-1 in a Mother’s Day match at San Diego Country Estate in California. Riggs nets a $5,000 bet that he could win.
1976 — Ninth and final ABA championship: New York Nets beat Denver Nuggets, 4 games to 2.
1979 — Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament.
1982 — Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th baseball game (beat Houston Astros).
1983 — Reggie Jackson is first major league player to strike out 2,000 times.
1985 — Carlton Fisk becomes the 5th catcher to steal 100 bases.
2006 — Liverpool F.C. defeat West Ham United F.C. on penalties in the 2006 FA Cup Final following a 3-3 draw after extra time.