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On This Day in Sport (13 September 2008):

1845: The world's first baseball club, the Knickerbocker Club of New York, was formed.
1970: Margaret Court of Australia beat Rosemary Casals to win the US Open and become only the second woman after Maureen Connolly to complete the Grand Slam of the four major tennis championships.
1983: Lancashire's Steven O'Shaughnessy scored 100 runs in 35 minutes against Leicestershire at Old Trafford - one of the fastest centuries ever seen in first-class cricket.

Headlines (13 September) :

Keegan meeting leaves further questions
Newcastle owner Mike Ashley and Kevin Keegan were unable to resolve their differences following a meeting on Friday.
Fergie dampens City enthusiasm
Sir Alex Ferguson has warned Manchester City that having the most cash does not guarantee they will end up with the best team.
Beijing delight for Darren
Darren Kenny won his fourth gold medal of the Paralympic Games as Great Britain celebrated four successes in Beijing on Saturday.
Poyet will stay, insists Allen
Clive Allen does not believe Gus Poyet will become the new manager at Newcastle because he is happy as Tottenham's first team coach.
Hamilton happy to move on
Lewis Hamilton heads into Sunday's Italian Grand Prix far from disheartened at the end of what might have been a trying week.
Scolari hails Robinho
Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari believes Robinho is worth every penny of the £32.4million Manchester City paid for the Brazilian - even though his bosses thought otherwise on transfer deadline day.
Symonds' omission will help us - Sehwag
Indian opening batsman Virender Sehwag said Andrew Symonds' exclusion from the Australian team would favour India in their upcoming Test series.
Tait makes early stand
Alan Tait has laid down the law to his Newcastle players - just one week into a new Guinness Premiership season.
Bulls coach left fuming
Bradford coach Steve McNamara blasted video referee Richard Silverwood's decision to disallow his side an early try as the Bulls' season came to an end with a 30-14 defeat by Wigan in the opening round of the engage Super League play-offs.
Mosley dismisses bias suggestions
Max Mosley has offered Lewis Hamilton his personal backing in this year's Formula One world title race.

International Results Roundup

Dateline 12 September 2008

FOOTBALL
Coca-Cola Division One Hartlepool 4 Cheltenham 1
GOLF
Mercedes-Benz Championship
Collated second round scores & totals of the European Tour Mercedes-Benz Championship, Gut Larchenhof GC, Hahnenstrasse, Cologne, Germany(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 72):
136 Robert Karlsson (Swe) 67 69 137 Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 66 71 138 Peter Hanson (Swe) 69 69 139 Richard Finch 66 73 140 Soren Hansen (Den) 73 67, Marcel Siem (Ger) 72 68 141 Ross Fisher 68 73, Michael Campbell (Nzl) 71 70, Marc Warren 72 69, Johan Edfors (Swe) 74 67 142 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 71 71, James Kingston (Rsa) 69 73, Alexander Noren (Swe) 71 71, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 72 70, Paul Lawrie 70 72, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 73 69
Bell Micro LPGA Classic
Collated second round scores & totals in the LPGA tour Bell Micro LPGA Classic, RTJ Golf Trail, Mobile, Alabama, United States of America(USA unless stated, par 72):
135 Cristie Kerr 69 66 137 Angela Stanford 70 67 138 Michelle Ellis 68 70 139 Reilley Rankin 70 69 140 Mollie Fankhauser 71 69, Irene Cho 68 72, Laura Diaz 72 68, Anna Rawson (Aus) 67 73, Shanshan Feng (Chn) 67 73, Katherine Hull (Aus) 71 69 141 Angela Park (Bra) 68 73, Heather Daly-Donofrio 72 69, Hee Young Park (Kor) 71 70, Jeong Jang (Kor) 69 72 142 Sarah Jane Kenyon 73 69, Song-Hee Kim (Kor) 69 73, Allison Hanna-Williams 73 69
TENNIS
ATP BCR Open Romania Quarter-finals:
(2) Gilles Simon (Fra) bt Florent Serra (Fra) 6-2 6-3 (6) Carlos Moya (Spa) bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (Spa) 5-7 6-3 6-4 (8) Jose Acasuso (Arg) bt Ivan Navarro Pastor (Spa) 6-4 6-4 (1) Richard Gasquet (Fra) bt Teimuraz Gabashvili (Rus) 6-7 (6-8) 6-1 6-1
WTA Commonwealth Bank Classic Quarter-finals:
(4) Nadia Petrova (Rus) bt (5) Francesca Schiavone (Ita) 6-4 6-3 (2) Patty Schnyder (Swi) bt Marta Domachowska (Pol) 6-2 6-2 (1) Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) bt Yung-Jan Chan (Tpe) 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 6-2 Tamira Paszek (Aut) bt (3) Flavia Pennetta (Ita) 4-6 6-0 6-2
PARALYMPICS
Darren Kenny won his fourth gold medal of the Paralympic Games as Great Britain celebrated four successes in Beijing today
It was Britain's 37th gold of the Games and took them one behind China in the medal table - Britain's cyclists have now won a remarkable 17 golds.
Danielle Brown and John Stubbs struck gold at the Olympic Green Archery Field before a glorious Games for Britain's cyclists continued on the road.
Rachel Morris, David Stone and Sarah Storey were victorious in their respective time-trials on day six and Britain have now won five out of nine events entered at the Ming Tomb Reservoir road cycling course.
Sascha Kindred was Britain's first finalist of the day at the National Aquatics Center but could not add to the two golds he won earlier in the week as Xu Qing took the men's S6 50 metres butterfly in a world record of 30.79secs. The 30-year-old from Hereford won bronze, finishing third in 32.49.