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American football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

NFL championship
  • Canton Bulldogs
    Canton Bulldogs
    The Canton Bulldogs were a professional American football team, based in Canton, Ohio. They played in the Ohio League from 1903 to 1906 and 1911 to 1919, and its successor, the National Football League, from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1925 to 1926. The Bulldogs would go on to win the 1917, 1918...


College championship
  • College football national championship
    NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship
    A college football national championship in the highest level of collegiate play in the United States, currently the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , is a designation awarded annually by various third-party organizations to their selection of the best...

     – California Golden Bears
    California Golden Bears football
    The California Golden Bears football team is the college football team of the University of California. The team plays its home games at California Memorial Stadium, however the team played at San Francisco's AT&T Park in 2011 while Memorial Stadium was being renovated, the team will return to...

    , Cornell Big Red
    Cornell Big Red football
    The Cornell Big Red football team represents Cornell University in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Championship Subdivision college football competition as a member of the Ivy League. It is one of the oldest and most storied football programs in the nation...

    , Illinois Fighting Illini
    Illinois Fighting Illini football
    The Illinois Fighting Illini are a major college football program, representing the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. They compete in NCAA Division I-A and the Big Ten Conference.-Current staff:-All-time win/loss/tie record:*563-513-51...

     and Michigan Wolverines
    Michigan Wolverines football
    The Michigan Wolverines football program represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the most all-time wins and the highest winning percentage in college football history...

     (shared)

Association football

England
  • The Football League
    The Football League
    The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...

     – Liverpool 60 points, Sunderland 54, Huddersfield Town 53, Newcastle United 48, Everton 47, Aston Villa 46
  • FA Cup final
    FA Cup Final
    The FA Cup Final, commonly referred to in England as just the Cup Final, is the last match in the Football Association Challenge Cup. With an official attendance of 89,826 at the 2007 FA Cup Final, it is the fourth best attended domestic club championship event in the world and the second most...

     – Bolton Wanderers 2–0 West Ham United at Empire Stadium, Wembley, London. The match, known as the "White Horse Final", is the inaugural Wembley final.
  • The Third Division North
    Football League Third Division North
    The Third Division North of The Football League was a tier in the English association football league system from 1921 to 1958. It ran parallel to Third Division South with clubs elected to the League or relegated from a higher division allocated to one or the other according to geographical position...

     expands from 20 to 22 clubs, bringing the total number of Football League clubs to 88. With Stalybridge Celtic expelled, the new clubs are Doncaster Rovers, New Brighton
    New Brighton A.F.C.
    -Revived club:New Brighton A.F.C. were reborn in 1993, and joined the Birkenhead and Wirral League, which they won in their first season. In 1995 the club switched to the South Wirral League. After upgrading their new ground, the club were admitted to the Second Division of the West Cheshire League...

     (1923–1951) and AFC Bournemouth
    A.F.C. Bournemouth
    A.F.C. Bournemouth is an English football club currently playing in Football League One. The club plays at Dean Court in Kings Park, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset and have been in existence since 1899....

    .

Romania
  • Rapid Bucureşti
    Rapid Bucuresti
    Fotbal Club Rapid București is a Romanian football club. It was founded in 1923 by a group workers of the Grivița workshops under the name of "Cultural and Sporting Association CFR" . Rapid won the Romanian championship 3 times and the Romanian Cup on thirteen occasions...

     is founded under the name "Cultural and Sporting Association CFR
    CFR
    CFR can refer to:* Code of Federal Regulations of the United States* Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. foreign policy think tank* Campaign finance reform in the United States* Cost and Freight, word used in international commerce...

    " (in Romanian: Asociatia culturala si sportiva C.F.R.) by a group of workers at the Grivita
    Grivita
    Griviţa is an area of Bucharest, Romania, centered on the Griviţa Railway Yards , which were and still are an important landmark within the manufacturing landscape of the city...

     workshops.

Spain
  • Celta de Vigo
    Celta de Vigo
    Real Club Celta de Vigo , simply referred to as Celta Vigo, is a Spanish professional football club based in Vigo, Galicia, currently playing in the Segunda División. It was founded on March 28, 1923 following the merger of Real Vigo Sporting and Real Fortuna Foot-ball Club.Nicknamed Los Celestes ,...

     is founded after the merger of Real Vigo Sporting
    Real Vigo Sporting
    Real Vigo Sporting Club , was a Spanish football club based in Vigo, Galicia. They later joined with their city rivals Real Fortuna Foot-ball Club to form Celta de Vigo.-History:...

     and Real Club Fortuna de Vigo
    Real Club Fortuna de Vigo
    Real Fortuna Foot-ball Club, was a Spanish football club based in Vigo, Galicia. They won the Galician Championship nine times in 1906, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1915, 1918, 1921 and 1922. They later joined with their city rivals Real Vigo Sporting to form Real Club Celta de Vigo.The last match...

    .

Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • FK Tekstilac Derventa
    FK Tekstilac Derventa
    FK Tekstilac Derventa is a football club from the town of Derventa, in the entity Republika Srpska of country Bosnia and Herzegovina. The club competes in the Republika Srpska Second League.-History:...

     is founded as FK Dječko Derventa.

Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

VFL Premiership
  • Essendon
    Essendon Football Club
    The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

     wins the 27th VFL
    Australian Football League
    The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

     Premiership: Essendon 8.15 (63) d Fitzroy
    Fitzroy Football Club
    The Fitzroy Football Club, formerly nicknamed The Lions, is an Australian rules football club formed in 1883 to represent the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897...

     6.10 (46) at Melbourne Cricket Ground
    Melbourne Cricket Ground
    The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

     (MCG)

Bandy
Bandy
Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

Sweden
  • Championship final
    Swedish bandy champions
    Swedish bandy champions is a title held by the winners of the final of the highest Swedish bandy league played each year, Elitserien. The final is played in March. From the 2007-2008 season, Saturday replaced Sunday as the final date, but was changed back in 2010...

     – Västerås SK
    Västerås SK Bandy
    Västerås SK Bandy is a Swedish sports club located in Västerås that plays the winter sport of bandy. The senior side currently plays in the Swedish Elitserien, the top division of Swedish bandy...

     2-1 IF Linnéa

Baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

World Series
  • 10–15 October — New York Yankees
    New York Yankees
    The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

     (AL) defeats New York Giants
    San Francisco Giants
    The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....

     (NL) to win the 1923 World Series
    1923 World Series
    In the 1923 World Series, the New York Yankees beat the New York Giants in six games. This would be the first of the Yankees' 27 World Series championships...

     by 4 games to 2

Major League Baseball
  • 18 April — opening of the original Yankee Stadium in the Bronx

Negro League Baseball
  • The Eastern Colored League
    Eastern Colored League
    The Mutual Association of Eastern Colored Clubs, more commonly known as the Eastern Colored League , was one of the several Negro leagues, which operated during the time organized baseball was segregated.- History :...

     (ECL) plays its first season with six teams: Hilldale Daisies, Brooklyn Royal Giants
    Brooklyn Royal Giants
    The Brooklyn Royal Giants were a professional baseball team based in Brooklyn, New York which played in the Negro Leagues. They were one of the premier professional teams before World War I, winning multiple championships in the East.- League play :...

    , Cuban Stars (East), New York Lincoln Giants, Atlantic City Bacharach Giants, and Baltimore Black Sox
    Baltimore Black Sox
    The Baltimore Black Sox were a professional Negro league baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland.- Founding :The Black Sox started as an independent team in 1916 by George Rossiter and Charles Spedden...

    . Hilldale wins the first pennant. Afterward the league votes for expansion to eight teams, accepting the Harrisburg Giants
    Harrisburg Giants
    The Harrisburg Giants were a U.S. professional baseball team in the Negro Leagues, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They joined the Eastern Colored League for the 1924 season with Hall of Fame center fielder Oscar Charleston as playing manager...

     and the Washington Potomacs.
  • The Negro National League
    Negro National League (the first)
    The Negro National League was one of the several Negro leagues which were established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated. Led by Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the NNL was established on February 13, 1920 by a...

     completes its fourth season with the Kansas City Monarchs
    Kansas City Monarchs
    The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro Leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri and owned by J.L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. J.L. Wilkinson was the first Caucasian owner at the time...

     winning their first pennant after three years of domination by Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants
    Chicago American Giants
    Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball...

    . The other teams in the league are Indianapolis ABC's, Detroit Stars
    Detroit Stars
    The Detroit Stars were a United States baseball team in the Negro leagues and played at historic Mack Park.- Founding :Founded in 1919 by Tenny Blount with the help of Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the Detroit Stars immediately established themselves as one of the...

    , St. Louis Stars
    St. Louis Stars (baseball)
    The St. Louis Stars were a Negro League baseball team that competed in the Negro National League from 1922 to 1931. Founded when Dick Kent and Dr. Sam Sheppard took over the St...

    , Cuban Stars (West)
    Cuban Stars (West)
    The Cuban Stars were a team of Cuban professional baseball players that competed in the United States Negro leagues from 1907 to 1932. The team was also sometimes known as the Stars of Cuba, the Cuban All-Stars, the Havana Reds, the Almendares Blues, or simply as the Cubans. For one season, 1921,...

    , Toledo Tigers
    Toledo Tigers
    The Toledo Tigers were a Negro National League team that operated during the season, its only season in the league, representing Toledo, Ohio. It played its home games at Toledo's Swayne Field, home of the minor league Mud Hens....

    , and Milwaukee Bears
    Milwaukee Bears
    The Milwaukee Bears were a Negro National League team that operated during the 1923 season, its only season in the league, representing Milwaukee, Wisconsin....

    . The Tigers and Bears disband during the season and three teams play under "associate" status for the remainder of the season: Cleveland Tate Stars
    Cleveland Tate Stars
    The Cleveland Tate Stars were a baseball team in the Negro National League in 1922. In their only season, they finished last of eight clubs with a 17-29 record in league play....

    , Birmingham Black Barons
    Birmingham Black Barons
    The Birmingham Black Barons played professional baseball for Birmingham, Alabama, in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1960 when the Major Leagues successfully integrated...

    , and Memphis Red Sox
    Memphis Red Sox
    The Memphis Red Sox were a professional Negro League baseball team based in Memphis, Tennessee from the 1920s until the end of segregated baseball....

    .
  • Oscar "Heavy" Johnson wins the NNL triple crown
    Triple crown (baseball)
    In Major League Baseball, a player earns the Triple Crown when he leads a league in three specific statistical categories. For batters, a player must lead the league in home runs, run batted in , and batting average; pitchers must lead the league in wins, strikeouts, and earned run average...

    , leading in batting average
    Batting average
    Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...

    , home run
    Home run
    In baseball, a home run is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process...

    s, and RBI, while Wilbur "Bullet" Rogan
    Bullet Rogan
    Charles Wilber "Bullet" Rogan, also known as "Bullet Joe" , was an American pitcher and outfielder for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro baseball leagues from 1920 to 1938...

     leads in wins and strikeouts. Raleigh "Biz" Mackey
    Biz Mackey
    James Raleigh "Biz" Mackey was an American catcher and manager in Negro league baseball. He came to be regarded as black baseball's premier catcher in the late 1920s and early 1930s...

     is the batting leader in the ECL with Jesse "Nip" Winters
    Nip Winters
    Jesse "Nip" Winters was a pitcher in Negro League baseball, playing for many top eastern teams from 1920 to 1933, and considered one of the top left-handed pitchers of his day.-References:...

     leading in most pitching categories.
  • There is no World Series
    Negro League World Series
    The Negro League World Series was a post-season baseball tournament which was held from 1924-1927 and from 1942-1948 between the champions of the Negro leagues, matching the mid-western winners against their east coast counterparts....

     between the two champions this year, owing to enmity between Rube Foster and the ECL president Ed Bolden
    Ed Bolden
    Edward "Ed" Bolden was an American baseball executive and owner in the Negro Leagues. He established and owned the Hilldale Club of the 1910s–1920s and Philadelphia Stars of the 1930s–1950s, until his death...


Boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

Events
  • 18 June — Jimmy Wilde
    Jimmy Wilde
    Jimmy Wilde , was a Welsh world boxing champion. He was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer, as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, trainer, manager and promoter, Charley 'Broadway' Rose, as "the greatest...

    's long reign as World Flyweight Champion ends when he is knocked out by Filipino Pancho Villa
    Francisco Guilledo
    Francisco Guilledo , more commonly known as Pancho Villa, was a Filipino boxer. Villa, who stood only 5 feet and 1 inch tall and never weighed more than 114 pounds , rose from obscurity to win the World Flyweight boxing championship in 1923, earning acclaim in some quarters as "the...

     in the 7th round in New York City
  • 31 August — Harry Greb
    Harry Greb
    Harry Greb was an American boxer. He was World Middleweight boxing Champion from 1923 to 1926 and American Light Heavyweight title holder 1922–1923. He fought a recorded 303 times in his 13 year-career, against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910s & 20s could provide him, frequently squaring...

    , arguably the greatest-ever middleweight, takes the world title when he defeats Johnny Wilson
    Johnny Wilson (boxer)
    Johnny Wilson was born Giovanni Panica on March 23, 1893 in New York City. He was a professional boxer who fought from 1911 until 1926. The highlight of Wilson's career came when he captured the world middleweight championship by defeating Mike O'Dowd by decision over 12 rounds on May 6, 1920...

     over 15 rounds in New York City
  • 14 September — Jack Dempsey
    Jack Dempsey
    William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first...

     knocks out Luis Firpo
    Luis Firpo
    Luis Ángel Firpo, , was an Argentine boxer. Born in Junín, Argentina, he was nicknamed "The Wild Bull of The Pampas."...

     in the second round of a sensational fight at the Polo Grounds
    Polo Grounds
    The Polo Grounds was the name given to four different stadiums in Upper Manhattan, New York City, used by many professional teams in both baseball and American football from 1880 until 1963...

     in New York City to retain his World Heavyweight Championship title.

Lineal world champions
  • World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Dempsey
    Jack Dempsey
    William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first...

  • World Light Heavyweight Championship – Battling Siki
    Battling Siki
    Battling Siki , aka Louis Mbarick Fall, was a French light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912–1925, and briefly reigned as the lineal light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier...

     → Mike McTigue
    Mike McTigue
    "Bold" Mike McTigue was the light heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1923-1925....

  • World Middleweight Championship – Johnny Wilson
    Johnny Wilson (boxer)
    Johnny Wilson was born Giovanni Panica on March 23, 1893 in New York City. He was a professional boxer who fought from 1911 until 1926. The highlight of Wilson's career came when he captured the world middleweight championship by defeating Mike O'Dowd by decision over 12 rounds on May 6, 1920...

     → Harry Greb
    Harry Greb
    Harry Greb was an American boxer. He was World Middleweight boxing Champion from 1923 to 1926 and American Light Heavyweight title holder 1922–1923. He fought a recorded 303 times in his 13 year-career, against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910s & 20s could provide him, frequently squaring...

  • World Welterweight Championship – Mickey Walker
  • World Lightweight Championship – Benny Leonard
    Benny Leonard
    Benny Leonard was an American lightweight boxer. He was named as number 8 on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years and number 7 on ESPN's 50 Greatest Boxers of All-Time....

  • World Featherweight Championship – Johnny Kilbane
    Johnny Kilbane
    John "Johnny" Patrick Kilbane was a featherweight boxer in the early part of the 20th century. He held the featherweight title from 1912 to 1923, the longest period in the division's history...

     → Eugene Criqui
    Eugène Criqui
    Eugène Criqui was a French boxer who held the world featherweight title in 1923.Criqui was born in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. He was a professional pipe-fitter before he turned professional in 1910. He won the French flyweight title in 1912. His boxing career was interrupted when he...

     → Johnny Dundee
    Johnny Dundee
    Johnny Dundee was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932. Dundee was born Giuseppe Curreri in Sciacca, Sicily, but was raised in the United States....

  • World Bantamweight Championship – Joe Lynch
    Joe Lynch (boxer)
    Joseph Aloysius Lynch was an American Bantamweight boxer.-Pro career:He won the world title at that weight in 1920, defeating Pete Herman. Herman defeated him to regain the title the following year...

  • World Flyweight Championship – Jimmy Wilde
    Jimmy Wilde
    Jimmy Wilde , was a Welsh world boxing champion. He was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer, as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, trainer, manager and promoter, Charley 'Broadway' Rose, as "the greatest...

     → Pancho Villa
    Francisco Guilledo
    Francisco Guilledo , more commonly known as Pancho Villa, was a Filipino boxer. Villa, who stood only 5 feet and 1 inch tall and never weighed more than 114 pounds , rose from obscurity to win the World Flyweight boxing championship in 1923, earning acclaim in some quarters as "the...


Canadian football
Canadian football
Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

Grey Cup
  • 11th Grey Cup
    11th Grey Cup
    The 11th Grey Cup was played on December 1, 1923, before 8,629 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto.Queen's University shut out the Regina Rugby Club 54 to 0....

     in the Canadian Football League
    Canadian Football League
    The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

     – Queen's University 54–0 Regina Roughriders
    Saskatchewan Roughriders
    The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. They were founded in 1910. They play their home games at 2940 10th Avenue in Regina, which has been the team's home base for its entire history, even prior to the construction of Mosaic Stadium at Taylor...


Cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

Events
  • In a cold, damp English summer, a West Indian team
    West Indian cricket team in England in 1923
    The West Indian cricket team toured England in the 1923 season. The team played 28 matches between 19 May and 5 September 1923 of which 20 were regarded as first-class. This was the 3rd West Indian tour following those of 1900 and 1906....

     is on tour, winning six and losing 7 first-class
    First-class cricket
    First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

     matches.

England
  • County Championship
    County Championship
    The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...

     – Yorkshire
    Yorkshire County Cricket Club
    Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....

  • Minor Counties Championship – Buckinghamshire
    Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club
    Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Buckinghamshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. The Minor Counties play...

  • Most runs – Patsy Hendren
    Patsy Hendren
    Elias Henry Hendren better known as Patsy Hendren was an English cricketer. Patsy was one of the most prolific English batsmen of the period between the wars, averaging 47.63 in his 51 Test matches...

     2934 @ 77.21 (HS 200*)
  • Most wickets – Maurice Tate
    Maurice Tate
    Maurice William Tate was a Sussex and England cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s and the leader of England's Test bowling attack for a long time during this period...

     219 @ 13.97 (BB 8–30)
  • Wisden Cricketers of the Year
    Wisden Cricketers of the Year
    The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season"...

     – Arthur Gilligan
    Arthur Gilligan
    Arthur Edward Robert Gilligan was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Sussex, Surrey and England....

    , Roy Kilner
    Roy Kilner
    Roy Kilner was an English professional cricketer who played nine Test matches for England between 1924 and 1926. An all-rounder, he played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1927. In all first-class matches, he scored 14,707 runs at an average of 30.01 and took 1,003 wickets at an...

    , George Macaulay
    George Macaulay
    George Gibson Macaulay , was a professional English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1920 and 1935. He played in eight Test matches for England from 1923 to 1933, achieving the rare feat of taking a wicket with his first ball in Test cricket...

    , Cec Parkin, Maurice Tate
    Maurice Tate
    Maurice William Tate was a Sussex and England cricketer of the 1920s and 1930s and the leader of England's Test bowling attack for a long time during this period...


Australia
  • Sheffield Shield – New South Wales
  • Most runs – Percy Chapman
    Percy Chapman
    Arthur Percy Frank Chapman was an English cricketer who captained England to a then English-record-equalling seven consecutive Test match wins, a record that was not surpassed until Michael Vaughan's team won eight in a row in 2004...

     782 @ 65.16 (HS 134*)
  • Most wickets – Arthur Mailey
    Arthur Mailey
    Arthur Alfred Mailey was an Australian cricketer who played in 21 Test matches between 1920 and 1926....

     55 @ 21.58 (BB 6–45)

India
  • Bombay Quadrangular
    Bombay Quadrangular
    The Bombay Quadrangular was an influential cricket tournament held in Bombay, India from 1912 to 1936. At other times it was known variously as the Presidency Match, Bombay Triangular, and the Bombay Pentangular....

     – Parsees
    Parsees cricket team
    The Parsees cricket team was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the annual Bombay tournament. The team was founded by members of the Zoroastrian community in Bombay....


New Zealand
  • Plunket Shield – Canterbury

South Africa
  • Currie Cup
    SuperSport Series
    The SuperSport Series is the main domestic first class cricket competition in South Africa, first contested in 1889-90. From 1990-91 it became known as the Castle Cup, and from 1996-97 by its current title...

     – not contested

West Indies
  • Inter-Colonial Tournament
    Inter-Colonial Tournament
    The Inter-Colonial Tournament was the main first class cricket competition in the West Indies before World War II.- Competing teams :* Barbados* British Guiana* Trinidad...

     – not contested

Cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

Tour de France
  • Henri Pélissier
    Henri Pélissier
    Henri Pélissier was a French racing cyclist from Paris and champion of the 1923 Tour de France. In addition to his 29 career victories, he was known for his long-standing feud with Tour founder Henri Desgrange and for protesting against the conditions endured by riders in the early years of the Tour...

     (France) wins the 17th Tour de France

Figure skating
Figure skating
Figure skating is an Olympic sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform spins, jumps, footwork and other intricate and challenging moves on ice skates. Figure skaters compete at various levels from beginner up to the Olympic level , and at local, national, and international competitions...

World Figure Skating Championships
  • World Men's Champion
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     – Fritz Kachler
    Fritz Kachler
    Fritz Kachler was an Austrian figure skater. He was the 1912, 1913, and 1923 World champion and the 1914 & 1924 European champion.He did not believe that sport and nationalism should be mixed and therefore chose not to participate in the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924.A mechanical engineer, he rose...

     (Austria)
  • World Women's Champion
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     – Herma Szabo
    Herma Szabo
    Herma Szabo was an Austrian singles and pairs figure skater. She is the 1924 Olympic champion in ladies' singles and a seven-time World Champion, including five titles in singles and two titles in pairs partnered with Ludwig Wrede.-Personal life:Szabo was born in Vienna, where she came from a...

     (Austria)
  • World Pairs Champions
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     – Ludowika Jakobsson-Eilers and Walter Jakobsson (Finland)

Golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

Major tournaments
  • British Open
    The Open Championship
    The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...

     – Arthur Havers
    Arthur Havers
    Arthur Gladstone Havers was an English professional golfer who won the 1923 Open Championship at Royal Troon.Havers was born in Norwich, England. He had first qualified for the Open in 1914 at the age of sixteen...

  • US Open – Bobby Jones
    Bobby Jones (golfer)
    Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. was an American amateur golfer, and a lawyer by profession. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national and international level...

  • USPGA Championship
    PGA Championship
    The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...

     – Gene Sarazen
    Gene Sarazen
    Gene Sarazen was an American professional golfer, one of the world's top players in the 1920s and 1930s. He is one of five golfers to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:U.S...


Other tournaments
  • British Amateur
    The Amateur Championship
    The Amateur Championship is a golf tournament which is held annually in the United Kingdom. It is one of the two leading individual tournaments for amateur golfers, alongside the U.S. Amateur...

     – Roger Wethered
    Roger Wethered
    Roger H. Wethered was an English amateur golfer who was the brother of Joyce Wethered, one of the finest female golfers of the pre-war era....

  • US Amateur – Max R. Marston

Horse racing
Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

England
  • Grand National
    Grand National
    The Grand National is a world-famous National Hunt horse race which is held annually at Aintree Racecourse, near Liverpool, England. It is a handicap chase run over a distance of four miles and 856 yards , with horses jumping thirty fences over two circuits of Aintree's National Course...

     – Sergeant Murphy
  • 1,000 Guineas Stakes – Tranquil
  • 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Ellangowan
  • Epsom Derby
    Epsom Derby
    The Derby Stakes, popularly known as The Derby, internationally as the Epsom Derby, and under its present sponsor as the Investec Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies...

     – Papyrus
  • Epsom Oaks
    Epsom Oaks
    The Oaks Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred fillies. It is run at Epsom Downs over a distance of 1 mile, 4 furlongs and 10 yards , and it is scheduled to take place each year in early June....

     – Brownhylda
  • St. Leger Stakes
    St. Leger Stakes
    The St. Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain which is open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Doncaster over a distance of 1 mile, 6 furlongs and 132 yards , and it is scheduled to take place each year in September.Established in 1776, the St. Leger...

     – Tranquil

Australia
  • Melbourne Cup
    Melbourne Cup
    The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...

     – Bitalli

Canada
  • Queen's Plate
    Queen's Plate
    The Queen's Plate is Canada's oldest thoroughbred horse race. It is run at a distance of 1¼ miles for 3-year-old thoroughbred horses foaled in Canada. The race takes place each summer in June or July at Woodbine Racetrack, Etobicoke , Ontario...

     – Flowerful

France
  • Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
    Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
    The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a Group 1 flat horse race in France which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 2,400 metres , and it is scheduled to take place each year, usually on the first Sunday in October.Popularly referred to as the...

     – Parth

Ireland
  • Irish Grand National
    Irish Grand National
    The Irish Grand National is a National Hunt chase in Ireland which is open to horses aged five years or older. It is run at Fairyhouse over a distance of about 3 miles and 5 furlongs , and during its running there are twenty-four fences to be jumped...

     – Be Careful
  • Irish Derby Stakes
    Irish Derby Stakes
    The Irish Derby is a Group 1 flat horse race in Ireland open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at the Curragh over a distance of 1 mile and 4 furlongs , and it is scheduled to take place each year in late June or early July.It is Ireland's equivalent of the Epsom Derby,...

     – Waygood

USA
  • Kentucky Derby
    Kentucky Derby
    The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...

     – Zev
  • Preakness Stakes
    Preakness Stakes
    The Preakness Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a Grade I race run over a distance of 9.5 furlongs on dirt. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds ; fillies 121 lb...

     – Vigil
  • Belmont Stakes
    Belmont Stakes
    The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5-mile horse race, open to three year old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds ; fillies carry 121 pounds...

     – Zev

Ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

Stanley Cup
  • 29–31 March — Ottawa Senators
    Ottawa Senators (original)
    The Ottawa Senators were an amateur, and later, professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a founding member of the National Hockey League and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934...

     wins the Stanley Cup
    Stanley Cup
    The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...

     for the fifth time, defeating the Edmonton Eskimos
    Edmonton Eskimos
    The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...

     by 2 games to 0 in the 1923 Stanley Cup Finals
    1923 Stanley Cup Finals
    -References:* Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame . Lord Stanley's Cup. Bolton, Ont.: Fenn Pub. pp 12, 50. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7-See also:* 1922–23 NHL season* 1922–23 Ottawa Senators season* 1922–23 PCHA season* List of Stanley Cup champions...


Motor racing

Grand Prix racing
  • 2 July — the 9th French Grand Prix
    1923 French Grand Prix
    The 1923 French Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Tours on July 2, 1923.- Classification :-References:...

    , organised by the Automobile Club de France (ACF), is run at Tours
    Tours
    Tours is a city in central France, the capital of the Indre-et-Loire department.It is located on the lower reaches of the river Loire, between Orléans and the Atlantic coast. Touraine, the region around Tours, is known for its wines, the alleged perfection of its local spoken French, and for the...

     over 799.07 km (22.83 km x 35 laps). The winner is Henry Segrave
    Henry Segrave
    -External links:* * * * *...

     (Great Britain) driving a Sunbeam in 6:35:19.6. The race is retrospectively referred to as the XVII Grand Prix de l´ACF.
  • 9 September — the 3rd Italian Grand Prix
    1923 Italian Grand Prix
    The 1923 Italian Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Monza on September 9, 1923.It was the first race to be designated as the European Grand Prix.- Classification :-References:...

     is run at Autodromo Nazionale Monza
    Autodromo Nazionale Monza
    The Autodromo Nazionale Monza is a race track located near the town of Monza, north of Milan, in Italy. The circuit's biggest event is the Formula One Italian Grand Prix, which has been hosted there since the sport's inception....

     over 800.00 km (10.00 km x 80 laps). The winner is Carlo Salamano (Italy) driving a Fiat 805/405
    Fiat
    FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...

     in 5:27:38.4. The race is officially titled the III Gran Premio d'Italia and is also given the honorary designation of European Grand Prix
    European Grand Prix
    The European Grand Prix is a Formula One event that was reintroduced during the mid-1980s and has been held regularly since 1999. From 2008 it will take place for at least another 7 years...

    .

Indianapolis 500
  • 30 May — 11th running of the Indianapolis 500
    Indianapolis 500
    The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is an American automobile race, held annually, typically on the last weekend in May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana...

     at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
    Indianapolis Motor Speedway
    The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, located in Speedway, Indiana in the United States, is the home of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the Brickyard 400....

     is won by Tommy Milton
    Tommy Milton
    Tommy Milton was an American race car driver best known as the first two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500. He was notable for having only one functional eye -- a disability that would have disqualified him from competing in modern motorsports.Born in St...

     (USA) in a Stutz
    Stutz Motor Company
    The Stutz Motor Company was a producer of luxury cars based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Production began in 1911 and continued through 1935. The marque reappeared in 1968 under the aegis of Stutz Motor Car of America, Inc., and with a newly defined modern retro-look. Although the company is...

    –Miller122

Le Mans 24 hours
  • The inaugural Le Mans 24 hours race is won by André Lagache
    André Lagache
    André Lagache was a French racing driver who, along with René Léonard, won the very first 24 Hours of Le Mans in . Lagache was an engineer at automobile manufacturer Chenard et Walcker, and was chosen to drive their "Sport" model in the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans...

     and René Léonard
    René Léonard
    René Léonard was a French racing driver who, along with André Lagache, won the inaugural running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in . Lagache and Léonard were both engineers for the Chenard et Walcker automobile company, and were chosen to drive one of the three entries in the endurance event...

     (both of France) driving a Chenard-Walcker
    Chenard-Walcker
    Chenard-Walcker, also known as Chenard & Walcker and Chenard et Walcker was a French automobile manufacturer, from 1900 to 1946. The factory was at first in Asnières-sur-Seine moving to Gennevilliers in 1906.-History:...

     over 128 laps and 2209.536 km.

Multi-sport event
Multi-sport event
A multi-sport event is an organized sporting event, often held over multiple days, featuring competition in many different sports between organized teams of athletes from nation-states. The first major, modern, multi-sport event of international significance was the modern Olympic Games.Many...

s

Far Eastern Championship Games
  • The 6th Far Eastern Championship Games
    Far Eastern Championship Games
    The Far Eastern Championship Games was a small Asian multi-sport competition considered to be a precursor to the Asian Games....

     is held at Osaka
    Osaka
    is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

    , Japan.

Rowing
Rowing (sport)
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

The Boat Race
  • 24 March — Oxford
    Oxford University Boat Club
    The Oxford University Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Oxford, England, located on the River Thames at Oxford. The club was founded in the early 19th century....

     wins the 75th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
    The Boat Race
    The event generally known as "The Boat Race" is a rowing race in England between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights each spring on the River Thames in London. It takes place generally on the last Saturday of March or the first...


Rugby league
Rugby league
Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

England
  • Championship – Hull Kingston Rovers
    Hull Kingston Rovers
    Hull Kingston Rovers or Hull KR is an English professional rugby league football club based in Hull, England. The club formed in 1882 and currently competes in Super League, having won promotion from National League One in 2006...

  • Challenge Cup final
    Challenge Cup
    The Challenge Cup is a knockout cup competition for rugby league clubs organised by the Rugby Football League. Originally it was contested only by British teams but in recent years has been expanded to allow teams from France and Russia to take part....

     – Leeds
    Leeds Rhinos
    Leeds Rhinos is an English professional rugby league football club based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The club won the 2011 Super League and became the most successful club in the Super League era, beating St Helens 32-16 on 8th October 2011. Formed in 1890, Leeds competes in Europe's Super League...

     28–3 Hull at Belle Vue, Wakefield
    Belle Vue (Wakefield)
    Belle Vue is a rugby league stadium in Wakefield, England. It is the home stadium of Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. It is located beside the A638 Doncaster Road, approximately one mile south of Wakefield City Centre.- Description :Currently, the East stand has a covered stand with seating, with some...

  • Lancashire League Championship
    Rugby league county leagues
    The Yorkshire League and the Lancashire League formed two sections of the Rugby Football League Championship for much of its history. Initially, the 22 clubs that broke away in 1895 played in one combined league, however the following season saw the addition of many clubs, and the League was split...

     – Wigan
    Wigan Warriors
    Wigan Warriors is an English rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club's first team squad competes in the engage Super League and the team are the current Challenge Cup holders as of the 27th August 2011....

  • Yorkshire League Championship
    Rugby league county leagues
    The Yorkshire League and the Lancashire League formed two sections of the Rugby Football League Championship for much of its history. Initially, the 22 clubs that broke away in 1895 played in one combined league, however the following season saw the addition of many clubs, and the League was split...

     – Hull
  • Lancashire Cup
    Rugby league county cups
    Historically, British rugby league clubs competed for the Lancashire Cup and the Yorkshire Cup, known collectively as the county cups. The leading rugby clubs in Yorkshire had played in a cup competition for several years prior to the schism of 1895...

     – Wigan
    Wigan Warriors
    Wigan Warriors is an English rugby league club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. The club's first team squad competes in the engage Super League and the team are the current Challenge Cup holders as of the 27th August 2011....

     20–2 Leigh
    Leigh Centurions
    Leigh Centurions is an English professional rugby league club based in Leigh, Greater Manchester who play in the Co-operative Championship.The club was founded in 1878 as Leigh Rugby Football Club and is one of the original twenty-two clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in...

  • Yorkshire Cup
    Rugby league county cups
    Historically, British rugby league clubs competed for the Lancashire Cup and the Yorkshire Cup, known collectively as the county cups. The leading rugby clubs in Yorkshire had played in a cup competition for several years prior to the schism of 1895...

     – York
    York City Knights
    York City Knights Rugby League Club is a British professional rugby league club hailing from York. They play at the Huntington Stadium, situated to the north of York city centre...

     5–0 Batley
    Batley Bulldogs
    Batley Bulldogs are an English professional rugby league club from Batley, West Yorkshire. They currently play in the Co-operative Championship. Batley is one of the original twenty-two rugby football clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895...


Australia
  • NSW Premiership
    New South Wales Rugby League premiership
    The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia. Run by the New South Wales Rugby League from 1908 until 1994, the premiership was the state's and later the country's elite rugby league competition...

     – Eastern Suburbs
    Sydney Roosters
    The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League and is one of the oldest and most successful clubs in Australian rugby league history, having won twelve New South Wales Rugby League...

     15–12 South Sydney
    South Sydney Rabbitohs
    The South Sydney Rabbitohs are an Australian professional rugby league football team based in Redfern, a suburb of South-central Sydney, New South Wales. They participate in the National Rugby League premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital...

     (grand final)

Rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

Five Nations Championship
  • 36th Five Nations Championship
    Six Nations Championship
    The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....

     series is won by England
    England national rugby union team
    The England national rugby union team represents England in rugby union. They compete in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales. They have won this championship on 26 occasions, 12 times winning the Grand Slam, making them the most successful team in...

     who complete the Grand Slam
    Grand Slam (Rugby Union)
    In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship manages to beat all the others during one year's competition...

    .

Speed skating
Speed skating
Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

Speed Skating World Championships
  • Men's All-round Champion
    World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men
    The International Skating Union has organised the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men since 1893. Unofficial Championships were held in the years 1889-1892.-History:-Distances used:...

     – Clas Thunberg
    Clas Thunberg
    Arnold Clas Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz...

     (Finland)

Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

Australia
  • Australian Men's Singles Championship – Pat O'Hara Wood
    Pat O'Hara Wood
    Hector "Pat" O'Hara Wood was an Australian male tennis player.O'Hara Wood was born in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. He is best known for his two victories at the Australasian championships in 1920 and 1923. He died in 1961, aged seventy in Richmond...

     (Australia) defeats Bert St. John
    Bert St. John
    Bert St. John was an Australian tennis player.St. John won the doubles title alongside Pat O'Hara Wood at the Australasian Championships, the future Australian Open, in 1923, and reached three more finals at the tournament, losing in singles to Pat O'Hara Wood in 1923, in doubles alongside Gordon...

     (Australia) 6–1 6–1 6–3
  • Australian Women's Singles Championship – Margaret Molesworth
    Margaret Molesworth
    Maud Margaret 'Mall' Molesworth was a tennis player from Queensland, Australia who won the inaugural Australasian Championships women's singles title in 1922.-Tennis career:...

     (Australia) defeats Esna Boyd Robertson (Australia) 6–1 7–5

England
  • Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship – Bill Johnston (USA) defeats Francis Hunter
    Francis Hunter
    For the Distinguished Service Cross recipient, see Francis Hunter .----Francis "Frank" Townsend Hunter was a male tennis player from the United States of America...

     (USA) 6–0 6–3 6–1
  • Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship – Suzanne Lenglen
    Suzanne Lenglen
    Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was a French tennis player who won 31 Championship titles between 1914 and 1926...

     (France) defeats Kitty McKane Godfree (Great Britain) 6–2 6–2

France
  • French Men's Singles Championship – François Blanchy
    François Blanchy
    François Joseph Marie Antoine Blanchy, best known as François Blanchy was a tennis player competing for France....

     (France) defeats Max Decugis
    Max Décugis
    Maxime "Max" Omer Decugis was a male tennis player from France who holds the French Championships/French Open record of winning the tournament eight times and his three Olympic medals at the 1900 Summer Olympics and the 1920 Summer Olympics...

     (France) 1–6 6–2 6–0 6–2
  • French Women's Singles Championship – Suzanne Lenglen
    Suzanne Lenglen
    Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen was a French tennis player who won 31 Championship titles between 1914 and 1926...

     (France) defeats Germaine Golding
    Germaine Golding
    Germaine Golding was a Franco-British inter-war tennis player.Golding reached three consecutive French Open finals, from 1921 to 1923, and lost on each occasion to Suzanne Lenglen...

     (France) 6–1 6–4

USA
  • American Men's Singles Championship – Bill Tilden
    Bill Tilden
    William Tatem Tilden II , nicknamed "Big Bill," is often considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. An American tennis player who was the World No. 1 player for seven years, he won 14 Majors including ten Grand Slams and four Pro Slams. Bill Tilden dominated the world of...

     (USA) defeats Bill Johnston (USA) 6–4 6–1 6–4
  • American Women's Singles Championship – Helen Wills Moody
    Helen Wills Moody
    Helen Newington Wills Roark , also known as Helen Wills Moody, was an American tennis player. She has been described as "the first American born woman to achieve international celebrity as an athlete."-Biography:...

     (USA) defeats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory (Norway) 6–2 6–1

Davis Cup
  • 1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
    1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
    The 1923 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 18th edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. For the first time, the competition would be split into two zones: the America Zone and the Europe Zone. This change was necessitated by having more than 16 teams compete for the cup...

     – 4–1 at West Side Tennis Club
    West Side Tennis Club
    The West Side Tennis Club is a private tennis club located in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is currently an oasis within the City with 38 courts in all four surfaces , a junior Olympic swimming pool and many other amenities.It is most notable for hosting...

     (grass) New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

    , United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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