Apart from Grimsby Town (now in D3N) and
Crystal Palace (promoted to the Second Division), all the remaining members of the former Third Division are transferred to D3S. Two new clubs are elected to this division:
Aberdare Athletic (1921–1927) and
Charlton Athletic.
30 June –
North Melbourne disbands in an attempt to merge with VFL club
Essendon and is disqualified from the rest of
the VFA season; the merger is precluded by a veto by the government of Essendon moving to
Arden Street.
2 July — boxing's first “million dollar gate” occurs when
Jack Dempsey meets
Georges Carpentier in a “hastily assembled outdoor arena built on a farm in
Jersey City,
New Jersey”. A crowd of more than 80,000 attends an event billed by its promoter
Tex Rickard as the "Battle of the Century". Dempsey wins by a fourth-round knockout in a scheduled 12-round fight which is also special for its radio broadcast. It is the first-ever broadcast to a "mass audience" with ringside commentary relayed over the new
radiophone to hundreds of thousands of people in the northeastern United States.[2]
England tours Australia and becomes the first team to lose every match in a five-match
Test series. In the
1921 English season,
Australia emphasises the post-war superiority that it owes, in particular, to the pace duo of
Jack Gregory and
Ted McDonald. Having won 5–0 in Australia the previous winter, the Australians win the first three Tests of the 1921 tour and then draw the last two.
Apart from Grimsby Town (now in D3N) and
Crystal Palace (promoted to the Second Division), all the remaining members of the former Third Division are transferred to D3S. Two new clubs are elected to this division:
Aberdare Athletic (1921–1927) and
Charlton Athletic.
30 June –
North Melbourne disbands in an attempt to merge with VFL club
Essendon and is disqualified from the rest of
the VFA season; the merger is precluded by a veto by the government of Essendon moving to
Arden Street.
2 July — boxing's first “million dollar gate” occurs when
Jack Dempsey meets
Georges Carpentier in a “hastily assembled outdoor arena built on a farm in
Jersey City,
New Jersey”. A crowd of more than 80,000 attends an event billed by its promoter
Tex Rickard as the "Battle of the Century". Dempsey wins by a fourth-round knockout in a scheduled 12-round fight which is also special for its radio broadcast. It is the first-ever broadcast to a "mass audience" with ringside commentary relayed over the new
radiophone to hundreds of thousands of people in the northeastern United States.[2]
England tours Australia and becomes the first team to lose every match in a five-match
Test series. In the
1921 English season,
Australia emphasises the post-war superiority that it owes, in particular, to the pace duo of
Jack Gregory and
Ted McDonald. Having won 5–0 in Australia the previous winter, the Australians win the first three Tests of the 1921 tour and then draw the last two.