On this day in:

• 1904Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match

• 1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

• 1931Australian Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Coral McInnes Buttsworth beats Marjorie Cox Crawford 1-6, 6-3, 6-4

• 1931Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford wins 1st of 4 Australian titles; beats fellow Australian Harry Hopman 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1

• 19411st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)

• 1971 Joe Frazier ends Muhammad Ali's 31-fight winning streak at Madison Square Garden, NYC; retains heavyweight boxing title by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in "Fight of the Century"

• 1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million