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1937 in sports

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1937 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

[[Alpine skiing]]

FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 7th FIS Alpine World Ski Championships are held at Chamonix, France. The events are a downhill, a slalom and a combined race in both the men's and women's categories. The winners are:

  • Men's Downhill – Emile Allais (France)
  • Men's Slalom – Emile Allais (France)
  • Men's Combined – Emile Allais (France)
  • Women's Downhill – Christl Cranz (Germany)
  • Women's Slalom – Christl Cranz (Germany)
  • Women's Combined – Christl Cranz (Germany)

[[American football]]

[[Association football]]

England

[[Australian rules football]]

  • Victorian Football League
    • 25 September – Geelong wins the 41st VFL Premiership, defeating Collingwood 18.14 (122) to 12.18 (90) in the 1937 VFL Grand Final
    • Brownlow Medal awarded to Dick Reynolds (Essendon)
  • South Australian National Football League
    • 2 October – Port Adelaide 13.16 (94) defeat South Adelaide 10.10 (70) to win their second consecutive SANFL premiership.
    • Magarey Medal won by Harold Hawke (North Adelaide)
  • Western Australian National Football League
    • 9 October – East Fremantle 14.13 (97) defeat Claremont 13.9 (87) to win their eighteenth premiership.
    • Sandover Medal won by "Scranno" Jenkins (South Fremantle).

[[Baseball]]

  • World Series – New York Yankees defeat New York Giants, 4–1.
  • Hall of Fame election – Continuing toward the goal of 10 initial inductees from the 20th century, voters select Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker and Cy Young. A special committee selects managers Connie Mack and John McGraw, former league presidents Morgan Bulkeley and Ban Johnson, and pioneer shortstop/promoter George Wright. Selections of nineteenth-century players are postponed.
  • Aguilas Cibaenas, a club of Dominican Republic, officially founded in Santiago de los Caballeros on January 28.

[[Basketball]]

Events

  • Major professional basketball returns with the formation of the National Basketball League.
  • Eurobasket 1937 – Lithuania win the second European basketball championship.
  • The fifth South American Basketball Championship in Valparaíso and Santiago is won by Chile.
  • The first NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament played in Kansas City.

[[Boxing]]

Events

  • 22 June – Joe Louis defeats James J. Braddock at Chicago by an eighth-round knockout to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
  • 30 August – in his first title defence, Louis defeats Tommy Farr at Bronx on a fifteen-round decision Lineal world champions
  • World Heavyweight Championship – James J. Braddock → Joe Louis
  • World Light Heavyweight Championship – John Henry Lewis
  • World Middleweight Championship – vacant
  • World Welterweight Championship – Barney Ross
  • World Lightweight Championship – Lou Ambers
  • World Featherweight Championship – vacant → Henry Armstrong
  • World Bantamweight Championship – Sixto Escobar → Harry Jeffra
  • World Flyweight Championship – vacant → Benny Lynch

[[Cricket]]

Events

  • England tours Australia, losing the five-Test series two games to three, despite winning the first two games. England
  • County Championship – Yorkshire
  • Minor Counties Championship – Lancashire Second Eleven
  • Most runs – Wally Hammond 3,252 @ 65.04 (HS 217)
  • Most wickets – Tom Goddard 248 @ 16.76 (BB 10–113)
  • New Zealand play a three-test series against England, losing the series one Test to nil with two draws.
  • Wisden Cricketers of the Year – Tom Goddard, Joe Hardstaff, Jr., Leonard Hutton, Jim Parks, Sr., Eddie Paynter Australia
  • Sheffield Shield – Victoria
  • Most runs – Don Bradman 1,552 @ 86.22 (HS 270)
  • Most wickets
    • Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 53 @ 20.24 (BB 8–79)
    • Frank Ward 53 @ 28.41 (BB 7–127) India
  • Ranji Trophy – Nawanagar beat Bengal by 256 runs
  • Bombay Pentangular – Muslims New Zealand
  • Plunket Shield – Auckland South Africa
  • Currie Cup – not contested West Indies
  • Inter-Colonial Tournament – Trinidad

[[Cycle sport|Cycling]]

Tour de France

  • Roger Lapébie wins the Tour de France. Giro d'Italia
  • Gino Bartali of Legnano wins the 25th Giro d'Italia

[[Field hockey]]

  • July 14 – foundation of HC Den Bosch, a Dutch club based in 's-Hertogenbosch

[[Figure skating]]

  • World Figure Skating Championships –
    • Men's champion: Felix Kaspar, Austria
    • Ladies’ champion: Megan Taylor, Great Britain
    • Pair skating champion: Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier, Germany

[[Golf]]

Men's professional

[[Horse racing]]

Steeplechases

  • Cheltenham Gold Cup – not held due to flooding of Cheltenham Racecourse
  • Grand National – Royal Mail Hurdle races
  • Champion Hurdle – Free Fare Flat races
  • Australia – Melbourne Cup won by The Trump
  • Canada – King's Plate won by Goldlure
  • France – Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by Corrida
  • Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Phideas
  • English Triple Crown Races:
    1. 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Le Ksar
    2. The Derby – Mid-day Sun
    3. St. Leger Stakes – Chulmleigh
  • United States Triple Crown Races:
    1. Kentucky Derby – War Admiral
    2. Preakness Stakes – War Admiral
    3. Belmont Stakes – War Admiral

[[Ice hockey]]

[[Motorsport]]

Main article: 1937 in motorsport, List of 1937 motorsport champions

[[Nordic skiing]]

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

  • 10th FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1937 are held at Chamonix, France

[[Rowing (sport)|Rowing]]

The Boat Race

  • 24 March — Oxford wins the 89th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

[[Rugby league]]

[[Rugby union]]

[[Snooker]]

[[Speed skating]]

Speed Skating World Championships

  • Men's All-round Champion – Michael Staksrud (Norway)
  • Women's All-round Champion – Laila Schou Nilsen (Norway)

[[Tennis]]

Australia

[[Yacht racing]]

  • The New York Yacht Club retains the America's Cup as Ranger defeats British challenger Endeavour II, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 4 races to 0

Awards

  • Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Don Budge, Tennis
  • Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Katherine Rawls, Swimming

References

References

  1. [http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/pastchp.htm Cyber Boxing Zone]
  2. (26 August 2020). "Cycling-Tour de France list of winners".
  3. "Epsom Derby {{!}} History, Winners, & Facts {{!}} Britannica".
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