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• Washington Senators def. New York Giants (4-3) in the World Series.

Negro League Baseball (Negro League)

• Kansas City Monarchs (NNL) defeats Hilldale (ECL) 5 games to 4 with 1 tie in the first official Negro League World Series.
• The pitcher Nip Winters wins a record 27 games for Hilldale in the ECL regular season.

Football (American)

• Cleveland Bulldogs win National Football League title

Football (Australian rules football)

• Victorian Football League
  • Essendon wins the 28th VFL Premiership (under the finals system used, no grand final was played)
  • Brownlow Medal awarded for the first time, to Edward Greeves (Geelong).

Football (soccer)

England

• First Division - Huddersfield Town win the 1923-24 title.
• FA Cup - Newcastle United beat Aston Villa 2-0.

Golf

• June 4-6 - U.S. Open - Cyril Walker
• June 24-27 - British Open - Walter Hagen
• September 20 - PGA Championship - Walter Hagen
• British Amateur - Ernest Holderness
• U.S. Amateur - Bobby Jones

Hockey (Field)

• The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is founded on January 7 in Paris by seven member states: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland.

Hockey (Ice)

• Montreal Canadiens win their 2nd Stanley Cup, defeating the Calgary Tigers 2 games to 0.

Horse Racing

• May 17 - Black Gold wins the Kentucky Derby

Multi-sport events

• 1924 Summer Olympics takes place in Paris, France
  • United States wins the most medals (99), and the most gold medals (45).
• 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics, takes place in Chamonix, France
  • Norway wins the most medals (17), and both Norway and Finland win the most gold medals (4).

Births

• July 18 — Inge Sørensen, Danish female swimmer
• September 5 — Nick Carter, New Zealand cyclist (d. 2003)
• September 22 — Norvel Lee, American boxer (d. 1992)
• September 27 — Magnar Estenstad, Norwegian cross country skier (d. 2004)
• September 29 — Esther Brand, South African athlete
• October 10 — Balbir Singh Sr., Indian field hockey player
• October 11 — Mal Whitfield, American athlete

Deaths

• March 8 — Ernestus Greven (38), Dutch athlete (b. 1885)