1918 in sports

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Baseball

*The United States curtails professional baseball September 2 in order to accelerate mobilization for war
*World Series - Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2; Boston will not repeat for 86 years, until 2004. Chicago uses three lefty pitchers in rotation so Boston lefty batter Babe Ruth is benched during the four games he does not pitch himself; Ruth pitches brilliantly and George Whiteman stars as a full-time outfielder.
*Babe Ruth leads the American League in home runs for the first time, hitting 11

Football (Australian rules football)

*Victorian Football League - South Melbourne wins the 22nd VFL Premiership (South Melbourne 9.8 (62) d Collingwood 7.15 (57))

Golf

*British Open - not played due to World War I
*U.S. Open - not played due to World War I
*PGA Championship - not played due to World War I
*British Amateur - not played due to World War I
*U.S. Amateur - not played due to World War I

Horse racing

* May 11 - Exterminator wins the Kentucky Derby

Ice hockey

* January 2 - The Montreal Wanderers' arena burns down leading to the team's disbandment.
* March 11–13 - In a two-game total-goals series, the temporary Torontos team defeats the Montreal Canadiens 10–7 to win the inaugural National Hockey League (NHL) championship.
* March 11–13 - In a two-game total-goals series, the Vancouver Millionaires defeat the Seattle Metropolitans 3–2 to win the Pacific Coast Hockey Association championship.
* March 20–30 - In a best-of-five series, the Torontos defeat the Millionaires to win the Stanley Cup.
* March - The Kitchener Greenshirts win the Allan Cup.

Births

* January 1 — Willy den Ouden, Dutch freestyle swimmer (d. 1997)
* January 25 — Ernie Harwell, longtime Detroit Tigers announcer
* January 26 — Al Bummy Davis, American lightweight and welterweight boxer (d. 1945)
* February 3 — Helen Stephens, American athlete (d. 1994)
* March 10 — Fernando Peyroteo, Angola-born Portuguese football player (d. 1978)
* May 16 — Wilf Mannion, English football (soccer) player (d. 2000)
* June 18 — Reinaldo Gorno, Argentine long-distance runner(d. 1994)
* June 27 — Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer
* July 13 — Alberto Ascari, Italian racing car driver (d. 1955)
* July 27 — Jopie Selbach, Dutch swimmer (d. 1998)
* October 24 — James Peters, English long-distance runner (d. 1999)
* November 9 — Florence Chadwick, American long distance swimmer (d. 1995)
* December 7 — Max Merkel, Austrian football (soccer) player and coach (d. 2006)
* December 31 — Gunder Hägg, Swedish runner (d. 2004)

Deaths

*March 13 — Reggie Pridmore, British field hockey and cricket player (b. 1886)
*March 27 – Martin Sheridan (36), Irish-born athlete from the US (b. 1881)
*August 29 – Cecil Healy (36), Australian freestyle swimmer (b. 1881)
*November 14 — Arie Vosbergen (36), Dutch track anf field athlete (b. 1882)