AUG. 27— THIS DATE IN SPORTS HISTORY

■ 1884— Richard Sears beats Howard Taylor,

6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2 to win his fourth straight U.S. men’s national tennis championship.

■ 1903— Britain’s Hugh Doherty is the first nonAmerican to win themen’s singles title in the U.S.

Lawn Tennis Association championships with a

6-0, 6-3, 10-8 victory over William Larned.

■ 1909— William Larned wins his fifth U.S. men’s singles tennis title with a five-set victory over William Clothier in Newport, R.I.

■ 1928— Helen Wills beats Helen Hull Jacobs to take the fifthwomen’s singles title in the U.S.

Lawn Tennis Association championships. Wills needs only 33 minutes, defeating Jacobs 6-2, 6-1.

■ 1957— Hickory Smoke, driven by John Simpson

Jr., wins the Hambletonian Stakes after taking the fifth and deciding heat.

■ 1969— Lindy’s Pride, driven by Howard Beissinger, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats.

■ 1975— Onny Parun of NewZealand defeats Stan Smith 6-4, 6-2, in the first night match ever played at the U.S. Open. A crowd of 4,949 sawthe match at the West Side Tennis Club.

■ 1976— Transexual Renee Richards, formerly Richard Raskind, is barred from competing at the U.S. Open tennis championships after refusing to submit to a chromosome qualification test.

■ 1978— The NewYork Cosmos beat the Tampa Bay Rowdies 3-1 to win the NASL Championship.

■ 1985— Mary Joe Fernandez, at the age of 14 years and eight days, becomes the youngest player to win a match at the U.S. Open. Fernandez beats Britain’s Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4.

■ 1996— Stefan Edberg stunsWimbledon champion Richard Krajicek at the U.S. Open, winning 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in his record 54th straight and final Grand Slam event. ■ 1999— Maurice Greene and Inger Miller win the 200-meter dashes at the World Championships, giving the United States a sweep of the short sprints. Greene is the first sprinter to win the 100 and 200 at a major globalmeet since Carl Lewis swept both at the 1984 Olympics.

■ 2006— MarcoAndretti, 19, becomes the youngest winner of amajor open-wheel event, beatingDario Franchitti by 0.66 seconds to take the Indy Grand Prix ofSonoma.

■ 2015— Jamaican

Usain Boltwins his fourth successive 200-meter title at theWorld Championships in Beijing. Bolt’s time of 19.55 seconds is the 10th fastest ever and his best for three years. Justin Gatlin finishes second in 19.74.

■ 2018— Simona Halep makes a quick-as-canbe exit from the U.S.

Open, becoming the first

No. 1-seededwoman to lose her opening match at the Grand Slam tournament in the half-century of the professional era. Halep is overwhelmed by the powerbased game of 44th-ranked Kaia Kanepi of Estonia

6-2, 6-4 in a match that is stunningly lopsided and lasted all of 76 minutes.