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Contents 1 Baseball 1.1 minor leagues 2 Cricket 3 Football (Australian rules football) 4 Football (soccer) 4.1 England 4.2 Iceland 5 Golf 6 Horse Racing 7 Multi-sport events 8 Births 9 Deaths

Baseball

• World Series - Chicago Cubs defeat New York Giants, 4 games to 3 with one tie
• April 20: The Boston Red Sox open in the new Fenway Park with a 7-6, 11-inning win over the New York Yankees before 27,000. Minutes later the Detroit Tigers open remodeled Navin Park (later named Tiger Stadium) with a 6-5, 11-inning win over the Cleveland Indians 24,384.

minor leagues

• The Winnipeg Maroons win the Northern League championship

Cricket

• Triangular Test tournament played between England, Australia, and South Africa in England. England won, Australia second.

Football (Australian rules football)

• Victorian Football League - Essendon wins the 16th VFL Premiership (Essendon 5.17 (47) d South Melbourne 4.9 (33))

Football (soccer)

England

• First Division - Blackburn Rovers win the 1911-12 title.
• FA Cup - Barnsley beat West Bromwich Albion 1–0 (aet) in a replay. The first match finished 0–0 (aet).

Iceland

• Iceland's premier division, now known as Landsbankadeild, was established.
• KR won the first ever title.

Golf

• June 22-25 - British Open - Ted Ray
• July 31-August 2 - U.S. Open - John McDermott
• British Amateur - John Ball
• U.S. Amateur - Jerome Travers

Horse Racing

• May 11 - Worth wins the Kentucky Derby

Multi-sport events

• 1912 Summer Olympics takes place in Stockholm, Sweden
  • First usage of electronic timing and public address systems.
  • Sweden wins the most medals (65), and United States wins the most gold medals (25).

Births

• February 3 — Jack Metcalfe, Australian athlete (d. 1994)
• February 4 — Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006
• March 26 — Fritz Bondroit, German canoer (d. 1974)
• May 27 — Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
• June 23 — Flory Van Donck, Belgian golfer
• July 16 — Ben Bril, Dutch Jewish boxer (d. 2003)
• July 17 — Pál Kovács, Hungarian fencer (d. 1995)
• August 13 — Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)

Deaths

• 2 July - Tom Richardson, cricketer (b. 1870)
• 18 April - Walter Clopton Wingfield, lawn tennis inventor (b. 1833)