ON THIS DATE

1901: Seven-year-old Ogden wins two races in a single day at Sheepshead Bay racetrack in Coney Island.

1908: Tommy Burns knocks out Bill Lang in the sixth round for his last successful defense of his heavyweight title.

1924: Bill Tilden wins his fifth straight U.S. men’s singles title with a 6-1, 9-7, 6-2 victory over Bill Johnston. 1940: Byron Nelson wins the PGA by beating Sam Snead 1-up at Hershey Country Club in Pennsylvania. 1945: Frank Parker wins the men’s singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships by beating Bill Talbert. Sarah Palfrey Cooke beats Pauline Betz for the women’s title.

1970: The tiebreak debuts in Grand Slam tennis at the U.S. Open. A total of 26 tiebreaks (the nine-point sudden death tiebreak) are played on the first day of the tournament. Bob Mckinley and Ray Ruffels both win matches in fifth-set tiebreaks.

1971: Sixteen-year-old Chris Evert wins the first of her record 101 U.S. Open matches, defeating Edda Buding, 6-1, 6-0, in 42 minutes. Jimmy Connors, playing on his 19th birthday, comes back from a two-set deficit to beat Alex Olmedo for his first U.S. Open victory.

1984: In his first NFL start, Atlanta’s Gerald Riggs rushes for 202 yards and two TDS in a 36-28 win over the Saints. 1991: Jimmy Connors turns 39 years old and rallies from a 2-5 fifth-set deficit to defeat 24-year-old Aaron Krickstein, 3-6, 7-6, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6. The fourth-round Labor Day match lasts 4 hours and 41 minutes.