1930 Grand Prix season, Season review, Racing comes to Eastern Europe
Organised motor-racing was making an impact in eastern Europe, where hill-climbs had already been popular. This year saw the inaugural Lwów Grand Prix in Poland (also known by its German name of Lemberg), run on the basalt-tiled streets of the city. It only attracted a small field, but the next event three weeks later got a bigger response. The first Masaryk Circuit (also known as the Czechoslovakian Grand Prix) was held at the newly set up 29 km track out from the west of the city of Brno.


1930 Grand Prix season, Season review, Racing comes to Eastern Europe
It attracted a number of works teams, including the local Tatra, Walter, Wikov and Zbrojovka companies. Caracciola drove for Mercedes-Benz while Impéria-Excelsior hired local driver Jiři “Georg“ Tacheci. The favourites though were the two Alfa Romeos of Scuderia Ferrari and the three cars of the German Bugatti Team. In front of a large crowd, Caracciola held the lead initially until he missed a corner and crashed, without injury. Von Morgen took the lead until he too had engine problems. He, however, had the luxury of being able to call in his teammate Leiningen to swap their cars.


1930 Grand Prix season, Season review, Racing comes to Eastern Europe
It meant resuming a lap (over ten minutes) behind his teammate in fourth with three laps to go. He passed his teammate Burggaller the next lap and then Leiningen came to a stop. When Nuvolari’s Alfa overheated and stopped, empty of water on the last lap, von Morgen took an unlikely victory. The race was marred by a bad accident that left promising young French driver Michel Doré seriously injured, effectively ending his racing career. Nuvolari’s third place would mark the last racing appearance of the classic Alfa Romeo P2, after six successful seasons.


1930 Grand Prix season, Season review, Racing comes to Eastern Europe
The season wrapped up with the San Sebastián Grand Prix. Originally cancelled because of the economic crisis, it was re-scheduled when the King of Spain, himself a keen motor-racing follower, intervened. As the premier Spanish race of the year, it attracted a good field. Maserati was the favourites with Varzi and Count Maggi driving the 2.5-litre 26M. In the end Scuderia Ferrari (with Nuvolari and Borzacchini) did not arrive. So competition came from the Bugattis of Dreyfus, Étancelin, Lehoux and Zanelli. There were also the two Montiers and the Peugeots of Stoffel and Ferrrand.


1930 Grand Prix season, Season review, Racing comes to Eastern Europe
After a rolling start in front of the king, Varzi had stormed to the lead after the first lap. There was a tight 3-way battle for second between Lehoux, Dreyfus and Zanelli. Étancelin had retired when his car rolled after breaking a wheel, fortunately without injury to the driver. When the drivers all pitted at the halfway point for fuel, Varzi had a bad stop coming out a minute behind the three Bugattis. But he made up the time and retook the lead after seven laps.


1930 Grand Prix season, Season review, Racing comes to Eastern Europe
The Bugattis all retired - Zanelli crashed, bringing down a telegraph pole injuring a spectator; Dreyfus was injured when he skidded and rolled his car, while Lehoux broke a driveshaft out in the countryside. Varzi had lapped the field three times to win comfortably. Maggi was second, in his last competitive race, and the two Peugeots took the next places.


1930 Grand Prix season, Season review, Racing comes to Eastern Europe
Achille Varzi was the pre-eminent driver of the season with the two race-wins for Alfa Romeo and three for Maserati, on his way to winning the Italian Drivers’ Championship. While circuit racing was subdued across the Germanic countries, hill-climbs were far more popular with a European championship. Rudi Caracciola and his Mercedes were crowned European Mountain champions in 1930. In sports car racing, despite the growing ascendance of Alfa Romeo, Bentley won its fifth Le Mans victory after seeing off Caracciola’s Mercedes. But it was also a tough year for serious accidents.


1930 Grand Prix season, Season review, Racing comes to Eastern Europe
As well as those mentioned above, including the death of Conte Gastone Brilli-Peri at the start of the season, the Baroness Aniela d’Elern had been killed in the Algerian GP handicap race in May. A month later, the English Grand Prix winner Sir Henry Segrave died in a water speed record attempt.


1930 Grand Prix season, Results of the season's major races
italics show the driver of the race's fastest lap. Only those drivers with a best finish of 6th or better, or a fastest lap, are shown. Sources:


1930 Green Bay Packers season
The 1930 Green Bay Packers season was their 12th season overall and their tenth in the National Football League. The team finished with a  10–3–1 record under coach Curly Lambeau earning them a first-place finish and the Packers' second consecutive National Football League Championship.


1930 Green Bay Packers season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1930 Haitian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Haiti on 14 October 1930. The elections were authorized by the United States, which wished to pull out of Haiti after a lengthy occupation, and resulted in a majority for nationalist forces. The newly elected National Assembly elected Sténio Vincent as president on 18 November.


1930 Haitian parliamentary election
Following the elections, the last US Marines left Haiti in 1934.


1930 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election
The 1930 Hamilton municipal election was held on December 1, 1930 to select one Mayor, four Controllers, and sixteen members of the Hamilton, Ontario, City Council, two from each of the city's eight wards. Voters also cast ballots for trustees for the public school board.


1930 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Campaign
The 1930 campaign was marked by two major occurrences. The first was the absence of a vote on the city's Hydro Commissioner. Unlike in past elections, voters in Hamilton would not have the option to elect their representative to the publicly owned hydro-electric company for the city due to changes in provincial legislation that created an appointed board of three individuals to replace the single elected office of Commissioner. Attempting to de-politicize the office, Ontario's provincial government abolished the elected position and created a three-person board with appointees to be chosen by Queen's Park, city council, and the mayor.


1930 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Campaign
The second event was the surprise nomination of local athlete Sam Manson for a seat on the Board of Control. Unbeknownst to any more than a dozen of Manson's closest friends, his nomination caught the city's local political establishment by surprise. When rumours of a last-minute entry began circulating city hall at 10:00 the morning of Friday, November 21, the city's sitting aldermen and controllers began questioning the city clerk. Refusing to reveal who the candidate was until five minutes before the close of nominations, the city clerk reportedly faced a "barrage of questioning" from local politicians.


1930 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Campaign
Overall, interest in the election of 1930 was low, in part because of the worsening economic situation faced by Hamiltonians due to the Great Depression. The Hamilton Spectator reported that less than 30 people attended the traditional post-nomination speeches by candidates at city hall.


1930 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayor
"Last, but not least, we must congratulate Mayor Peebles on the signal honour accorded him. Of course, it was never expected that any one would contest the mayoralty this year. Not only is it an unwritten law that a mayor must have a second term unopposed, but his worship has displayed so much acumen and foresight in his conduct of civic affairs during one of the worst periods of the city's history, that there is a general feeling that no other hand but his could as successfully pilot the civic ship out of the shoals of depression."


1930 Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, Mayor
Mayor John Peebles, who had been acclaimed to his first term in 1929, was returned to a second-term by acclamation once more in 1930. In his nomination speech, Peebles spoke at length about the successes of his administration over the previous year, including the opening of McMaster University in Hamilton, improvements to the city's waterworks, and new facilities for the Canadian National Railway. In their summary of the city's nominations, the Spectator noted that "no other hand but [Peebles'] could as successfully pilot the civic ship out of the shoals of depression."


1930 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1930 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University. They were led by fifth-year head coach Arnold Horween and played their home games at Harvard Stadium.


1930 Harvard Crimson men's soccer team
The 1930 Harvard Bulldogs men's soccer team represented Harvard University during the 1930 ISFA season. It was the varsity program's 24th season of existence.


1930 Harvard Crimson men's soccer team
Harvard won their fourth ever national championship, and to date, their most recent national championship. Harvard accumulated a record of 8-1-0 through nine matches. The title was shared with Penn and Yale.


1930 Haskell Indians football team
The 1930 Haskell Indians football team was an American football that represented the Haskell Institute (now known as Haskell Indian Nations University) during the 1930 college football season. In its second year under head coach William Henry Dietz, the team compiled a 9–1 record. Louis Weller was the team captain.


1930 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 1930 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 6th season in the Victorian Football League and 29th overall.


1930 Hollywood Stars season
The 1930 Hollywood Stars season, was the fifth season for the original Hollywood Stars baseball team. The team, which began in 1903 as the Sacramento Solons, moved to Hollywood in 1926 and played in the Pacific Coast League (PCL).


1930 Hollywood Stars season
The 1930 PCL season ran from April 8 to October 19, 1930. The Stars, led by manager Ossie Vitt, finished first in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) with a 119–81 record. The PCL provided for a championship series to be played between the teams with best records in the first and second halves of the season. The Stars qualified for the championship series by compiling the best record in the second half of the season. In the championship series, the Stars and defeated the Los Angeles Angels, four games to one.


1930 Hollywood Stars season
First baseman Mickey Heath appeared in 174 games, compiled a .324 batting average, led the team with 136 RBIs and 19 stolen bases, and led tied for PCL lead with 37 home runs.


1930 Hollywood Stars season
Catcher Hank Severeid appeared in 129 games and led the team with a .367 batting average.


1930 Hollywood Stars season
Jesse Hill led the team with a .592 slugging percentage and led the circuit with 13 triples.


1930 Hollywood Stars season
Pitcher Ed Baecht compiled a 26-12 record and led the PCL with a 3.24 earned run average (ERA).


1930 Hollywood Stars season, Statistics, Batting
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; SLG = Slugging percentage; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases


1930 Hollywood Stars season, Statistics, Pitching
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1930 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The 1930 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1930 college football season. In its first season under head coach John McEwan, the team compiled an 8–2 record. The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1930 Homestead Grays season
The 1930 Homestead Grays baseball team competed as an independent in Negro league baseball during the 1930 baseball season. The team compiled a 45–15–1 (.746) record.


1930 Homestead Grays season
The team featured five individuals who were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: manager Cumberland Posey, first baseman Oscar Charleston; catcher Josh Gibson; third baseman Judy Johnson; and pitcher Smokey Joe Williams.


1930 Homestead Grays season
The team's leading pitchers were Smokey Joe Williams (11–5, 2.60 ERA), Chippy Britt (9–3, 2.76 ERA), and Lefty Williams (9–1, 4.18 ERA).


1930 Hong Kong sanitary board election
The 1930 Sanitary Board Election was supposed to be held on 8 December 1930 for the one of the 2 unofficial seats in the Sanitary Board of Hong Kong.


1930 Hong Kong sanitary board election
Only ratepayers who were included in the Special and Common Jury Lists of the years or ratepayers who are exempted from serving on Juries on account of their professional avocations, unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council, or categories of profession were entitled to vote at the election.


1930 Hong Kong sanitary board election
Dr. Roberto Alexandre de Castro Basto was elected without being contested, replacing the other Portuguese board member José Pedro Braga.


1930 Howard Bulldogs football team
The 1930 Howard Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Howard College (now known as the Samford University) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1930 college football season. In their second year under head coach Eddie McLane, the team compiled a 5–5 record.


1930 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1930 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State College during the 1930 college football season. They competed as an independent.


1930 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1930 Lumberjacks were led by fourth-year head coach Fred Telonicher. They played home games at Albee Stadium in Eureka, California. Humboldt State finished winless, with a record of zero wins and six losses (0–6). The Lumberjacks were shutout in five of their six games and gave up an average of 45 points per game, being outscored 7–268 for the season.


1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships
The 1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts which took place at the Margitsziget courts. It was part of the Hungarian International Tennis Championships series. The event was preceded by two years of promotion, which led to a greater number of foreign participants. As a result of the raised prize money the Hungarian Athletics Club decided to only organize the tournaments while the Hungarian Lawn Tennis Association took over the sponsoring task. The draw was announced on 1st September. The directors were disappointed by the many walkovers, which occurred in the early stages of the competition and the low performance of Hungarian players in overall.


1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships, Champions, Men's Singles
Roderich Menzel defeated  Béla von Kehrling; 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–1


1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships, Champions, Men's Doubles
Friedrich Rohrer /  Roderich Menzel defeated  Imre Takáts /  Franz Wilhelm Matejka; 7–5, 8–6, 9–7


1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships, Champions, Women's Doubles
Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling /  Anne Peitz defeated  Simone Barbier  Violette Gallay; 6–3, 7–5


1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships, Champions, Mixed Doubles
Georges Glasser /  Simone Barbier defeated  Fritz Kuhlmann /  Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling; 5–7, 8–6, 6–4


1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Béla Von Kehrling was the reigning champion but was defeated by Roderich Menzel 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, 6–1 who won his first Hungarian International Tennis Championships.


1930 Hungarian International Tennis Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The third and fourth seeds had to play a play-off pre-match into the first round.


1930 Ice Hockey World Championships
The 1930 Ice Hockey World Championships were held between January 30 and February 10, 1930, in Chamonix, France, Vienna, Austria, and Berlin, Germany. This event was the first world championships independent of hockey at the Olympics.


1930 Ice Hockey World Championships
Canada, represented by the Toronto CCMs, beat the German team in the gold medal match by a score of 6 to 1 to win the title.


1930 Ice Hockey World Championships
Germany won their first European Championship, defeating Switzerland in Berlin two to one. The lone game in Vienna was played to determine the European Bronze, Austria shutout Poland two to zero to round out the medals.


1930 Ice Hockey World Championships, Final tournament, Final
The tournament was a direct knock-out playoff. The Canadian team was considered so dominant that it did not participate in the knock-out tournament. Canada was put into the gold medal final game, and the tournament was played to determine an opponent.


1930 Ice Hockey World Championships, Final tournament, Final
Warm winter weather melted the ice in Chamonix, France and forced the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace officials to move the tournament to Berlin, Germany, and the Sportpalast (which had artificial ice). Additionally, the fourth place match was played in Vienna, Austria, making this the only world hockey championship tournament to take place in three different countries.


1930 Ice Hockey World Championships, Final tournament, Final
The Canadian team lost to Austria 1-0 on February 7 (in Vienna) in an exhibition match. The loss to Austria was the first time any Canadian team had lost to a European team.


1930 Icelandic parliamentary election
Elections to the Upper House of the Althing were held in Iceland on 15 June 1930. Following reforms in 1915, the six seats in the Upper House appointed by the monarch were abolished, and replaced with six elected seats. The seats were elected by proportional representation at the national level, using the D'Hondt method. The remaining eight seats were elected along with the Lower House. This was the last election solely for the Upper House, as from 1934 onwards all Upper House members were elected together with the Lower House.


1930 Idaho Vandals football team
The 1930 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1930 college football season. The Vandals were led by second-year head coach Leo Calland, and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. Home games were played on campus in Moscow at MacLean Field, with one in Boise at Public School Field.


1930 Idaho Vandals football team
Idaho compiled a 4–7 overall record but lost all five games in the PCC. For the only time in Calland's six seasons as head coach, the Vandals lost to rival Montana.


1930 Idaho Vandals football team
In the Battle of the Palouse with neighbor Washington State, the Vandals suffered a fourth straight loss, falling 7–33 at homecoming in Moscow on November 8. Idaho's most recent win in the series was five years earlier in 1925 and the next was 24 years away in 1954.


1930 Idaho Vandals football team, All-conference
No Vandals were named to the All-Coast team; on the All-Northwest team, fullback Fred Wilkie was a second team selection.


1930 Idaho gubernatorial election
The 1930 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1930. Democratic nominee C. Ben Ross defeated Republican nominee John McMurray with 56.03% of the vote.


1930 Illinois Fighting Illini football team
The 1930 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1930 college football season. In their 18th season under head coach Robert Zuppke, the Illini compiled a 3–5 record and finished in eighth place in the Big Ten Conference. Guard Stan Bodman was selected as the team's most valuable player. Fullback Olaf E. Robinson was the team captain.


1930 Imperial Conference
The 1930 Imperial Conference was the sixth Imperial Conference bringing together the prime ministers of the dominions of the British Empire. It was held in London. The conference was notable for producing the Statute of Westminster, which established legislative equality for the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire with Great Britain, thereby marking the effective legislative independence of these countries. Economic relations within the British Empire was also a key topic with proposals for a system of Imperial preference - empire-wide trade barriers against foreign (i.e. non-empire) goods. These proposals were further discussed at the British Empire Economic Conference in 1932.


1930 Imperial Conference, Background
The 1926 Imperial Conference produced the Balfour Declaration that Dominions were autonomous and not subordinate to Great Britain. The 1929 Conference on Dominion Legislation and Merchant Shipping Laws was intended to move from the Balfour Declaration's broad statement of principle to a substantive legal framework, but the Irish Free State and the Union of South Africa demanded greater practical autonomy than the other attendees would allow. The 1930 Conference would instead address the issue.


1930 Imperial Conference, Background
Historian George Woodcock argues it marks the beginning of the end of the British Empire.


1930 Imperial Conference, The Conference
The conference was hosted by King-Emperor George V, with his Prime Ministers and members of their respective cabinets:


1930 Indian general election
General elections were held in British India in September 1930. They were boycotted by the Indian National Congress and marked by public apathy. The newly elected Central Legislative Assembly met for the first time on 14 January 1931.


1930 Indiana Hoosiers football team
The 1930 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1930 college football season. The participated as members of the Big Ten Conference. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Harlan Page, in his fifth and final year as head coach of the Hoosiers.


1930 Indianapolis 500
The 18th International 500-Mile Sweepstakes Race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Friday, May 30, 1930. The race was part of the 1930 AAA Championship Car season.


1930 Indianapolis 500
Pole position winner Billy Arnold took the lead on lap 3, and led the entire rest of the race. He led a total of 198 laps (all consecutive), which stands as an all-time Indianapolis 500 race record. Arnold was accompanied  by riding mechanic Spider Matlock.


1930 Indianapolis 500
Arnold was the first driver to complete the entire 500 miles in under five hours (over 100 mph average speed) without relief help. Pete DePaolo finished the 1925 race in under five hours, but used a relief driver for 21 laps. Arnold would eventually be named the first member of the prestigious 100 mph Club.


1930 Indianapolis 500
The race was marred by the death of Paul Marshall. He was acting as riding mechanic for his brother Cy when their car hit and flipped over the wall. His brother survived with serious injuries.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Rules changes and the "Junk" formula
The 1930 race ushered in a series of substantially new engine rules and specifications. The allotted displacement was increased from 911⁄2 cu. in. (1.5 L) to 366 cu. in. (6.0 L). Superchargers were banned with the exception of two-cycle engines, and riding mechanics were made mandatory once again. In addition, the traditional mandate of a maximum 33-car field was lifted. This rules package would be in place through 1937.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Rules changes and the "Junk" formula
Contrary to popular belief, the rule changes were not made in response to the stock market crash of 1929. The rules package is sometimes referred to disparagingly as the "Junk Formula" or the "Junkyard," and a common misconception is that it was implemented in order to dumb down the cars and maintain full fields during the Great Depression.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Rules changes and the "Junk" formula
Speedway president Eddie Rickenbacker had decided to make the changes in order to lure back the passenger car manufacturers, and make the cars on the track more resemble those sold to the motoring public. Rickenbacker's desire was to move away from the supercharged, specialized racing machines that had taken over the Speedway through the 1920s. It was his vision at the time to bring the Speedway back to its origins and roots as a "proving ground" for the passenger car industry. Upon announcing the rule changes, he was quoted as saying, "Even a Model T can win." The rule changes were in fact being laid out as early as 1928, and were approved by the AAA Contest Board in early January 1929.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Practice
The deadline for entries to be submitted was midnight on May 1. The track was made available for practice a couple days later, with the first car taking to the track on or around Tuesday May 6. Most cars did not arrive at the Speedway until the second full week, with activity picking up mid-month.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Practice
By Monday May 19, a total of ten cars had taken to the track, with Louis Schneider (105 mph) posting the fastest lap thus far. On Tuesday May 20, the focus of attention was on the 201-c.i.d, 16-cylinder, Sampson Special of Louis Meyer. The car was now completed and wheeled out of its garage at the Steinhart Brake Services building. It was cranked up for the first time, and ready to deliver to the Speedway. Back at the track, Shorty Cantlon turned a lap of 109 mph.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Practice
On Wednesday May 21, Louis Meyer took to the track for the first time, blistering the bricks with a lap of 110.56 mph in the 16-cylinder machine. Meyer immediately established himself as a favorite for the front row. Meanwhile, Harry Hartz, who had not yet taken any laps in his front wheel drive Miller Special, was still expected to qualify come Saturday.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Practice
On Thursday May 22, Ralph Hepburn (112.20 mph) and Billy Arnold (111.83 mph) took laps in Harry Hartz's Miller Special. They were the two fastest laps thus far for the month. Speculation was growing that Hartz was preparing to hand the car over to either Hepburn or Arnold, but no official arrangement had been announced. As late as Friday night, Hartz was still insisting to the press that he was intending to race the car himself.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials
Qualifications was scheduled for five days, spanning from Saturday May 24 through Wednesday May 28. Four-lap qualifying runs were utilized, and cars were allowed up to three attempts. The minimum speed required was 85 mph. Time trials would end each day at sundown.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Saturday May 24
The first day of time trials was held Saturday May 24, scheduled for 11 a.m. to 7:01 p.m. L. L. Corum was the first car to qualify. Car owner Harry Hartz took the #4 Miller Special out for a shake-down qualifying attempt. After one official lap of 110.429 mph, he parked the car and handed it over to Billy Arnold. Arnold proceeded to win the pole position with a four-lap run of 113.268 mph.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Saturday May 24
One day after smacking the wall, Ernie Triplett qualified sixth. After practicing on Friday at over 111 mph, and being a favorite for the pole position, Louis Meyer fell short of expectations. Meyer qualified second, owing to an ill-conceived gear ratio change the team decided to make on Saturday morning.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Sunday May 25
Only two cars completed qualifying runs on Sunday May 25. Peter DePaolo was forced to change engines after crankshaft damage suffered on Saturday. Tony Gulotta put in the 12th-fastest speed thus far in the field, but as a second day qualifier, lined up in 20th starting position.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Sunday May 25
Rookie owner/driver Julius C. Slade quit his run after only two laps, then eventually would hand the car over to Roland Free. Rick Decker also pulled in after only two laps.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Monday May 26
Three cars completed qualifying runs on Monday May 26, filling the field to 24 cars. Bill Cummings led the speed chart for the day, with a run of 106.173 mph, the fourth-fastest car in the field. Cummings car arrived late in the day, and he completed his run after 6 p.m., shortly before the track closed for the day. Cummings day was not without incident, as he nearly involved in an accident along with Peter DePaolo as they drove the car to the Speedway grounds.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Monday May 26
Four other drivers took to the track, but failed to complete their runs. Bill Denver quit after two laps. Rick Decker, making his second attempt, blew an engine after completing only one lap. Likewise, Julius C. Slade, also making his second attempt in two days, threw a rod on his final lap. Babe Stapp took to the track just before sundown, but pulled off the track apparently before starting the attempt.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Tuesday May 27
Six cars made qualifying attempts on Tuesday May 27, with all six running to completion. Wilbur Shaw led the speed chart for the day, with a four-lap average of 106.132 mph. There were no major incidents reported.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Tuesday May 27
A day after practicing over 100 mph, Joe Huff did not disappoint, putting in the second-fastest speed of the afternoon. Rick Decker, who threw a rod and blew the engine in his #31 Decker Special on Monday, spent the day working a new engine. Decker made a deal with Fred Clemmons, owner of the #48 Hoosier Pete entry. Clemmons was unable to secure a chassis for his 4-cylinder Hoosier Pete engine, so he allowed Decker to install it in his car. The team expected to be out on the track for Wednesday.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Tuesday May 27
Juan Gaudino (#52) and Fred Fansin (#53) officially scratched their entries, after they failed to arrive. At the end of the day, the field was filled to 30 cars. About twelve hopefuls remained, looking to qualify on Wednesday.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Wednesday May 28
The final day of qualifications was held on Wednesday May 28, with time trials officially ending at sundown (7:04 p.m.) A total of eight cars managed to qualify for the race bringing the field to 38 cars. With an entry list featuring as many as 46-47 possible qualifiers, a total of four failed to qualify, and three cars never arrived. No cars were bumped or "crowded out."


1930 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Wednesday May 28
Deacon Litz was the fastest qualifier for the day, with a run of 105.755 mph. After two failed attempts, Rick Decker finally made the field, after he finished installation of the Hoosier Pete engine. Fred Roberts and Rollin May failed to complete their attempts. Roberts threw a rod, and May was too slow to meet the 80 mph minimum speed. Doc MacKenzie never made it out to the track, and Sam Greco threw a rod with only thirty minutes left in the day.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half
Louis Meyer in his 16-cylinder Miller grabbed the lead at the start, out-dueling polesitter Billy Arnold on the first lap. Meyer led laps 1 and 2, then Arnold took the lead on lap 3. Arnold would not relinquish the lead the rest of the afternoon.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half
On the grid, Rick Decker's engine failed to crank, and he did not start the race. When the crew finally got his car running, it lasted only 8 laps. Chet Gardner was out on the first lap after he spun and brushed the wall on the north end, damaging his left front wheel. Gardner became the first driver in Indy history to drop out of the race without completing a single lap.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half
A huge crash broke out on the leader's 23rd lap. Fred Roberts (driving relief for Pete DePaolo) lost control and crashed in turn three. He collected the car of Deacon Litz, who suffered a broken arm. Litz's riding mechanic Lloyd Barnes suffered a cut to the head. The cars of Johnny Seymour, Babe Stapp, Lou Moore, and Marion Trexler also got caught up in the incident. Stapp's car rode up the wall, but he was not seriously injured. Jimmy Gleason's car suffered damage driving through the debris, and he drove back to the pits. He dropped out with what was discovered to be broken timing gears.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half
After leading early, Louis Meyer was forced to make a pit stop on lap 22 to repair a broken throttle connection. He lost over four minutes in the pits, and dropped as far down as 13th place. He returned to the track, and started charging back up the standings.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half
On the leader's 31st lap, Cy Marshall wrecked in turn three. The driver was pinned under the wreckage, but survived. His brother, riding mechanic Paul Marshall, was thrown from the car, and died of a fractured skull.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Second half
Billy Arnold won over second place Shorty Cantlon by a margin of over seven minutes (about 4 laps). Arnold was not challenged by any of the other competitors in the second half. During a pit stop on lap 111, Arnold did not request relief help, and managed to drive the entire 500 miles without relief.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Second half
Arnold led a total of 198 laps (laps 3–200) to set an all-time Indianapolis 500 record for most total laps led (198), and most consecutive laps led (198).


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Second half
Second place Shorty Cantlon was relieved by Herman Schurch for laps 97 through 151.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Second half
Louis Meyer worked his way back into the top five by lap 140, but was unable to close the gap on Arnold. Meyer held fourth place over the final 50 laps, and finished sixteen minutes behind.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Box score
Note: Cars not finishing were awarded positions in the order in which they left the track, regardless of lap count


1930 Indianapolis 500, Chet Miller
One of the most famous nostalgic stories of Indianapolis 500 lore occurred with driver Chet Miller during the 1930 race. Just short of the mid-way point, Miller was in for a pit stop in his Fronty-Ford. The car, which was made up mostly of Model T parts, was discovered to have a broken right front spring. Race officials would not let Miller return to the track until repairs were made, so the crew began a search for suitable replacement parts.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Chet Miller
Within a short time, the crew spotted an unattended Model T, that ostensibly belonged to a spectator, parked nearby in the infield. With the owner nowhere in sight, the crew proceeded to remove the spring they needed, and subsequently installed it on Miller's race car sitting in the pit area. After a stop of over 41 minutes, Miller was back out on the track with the borrowed spring, and drove to a 13th-place finish.


1930 Indianapolis 500, Chet Miller
Following the race, with the vehicle's owner still not located, the crew went back to the infield and re-installed the spring on the unknown spectator's Model T. It is believed that the owner of the car was never aware of the entire situation.


1930 International Cross Country Championships
The 1930 International Cross Country Championships was held in Royal Leamington Spa, England, on 22 March 1930. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.


1930 International Cross Country Championships
Complete results, medallists,  and the results of British athletes were published.


1930 International Cross Country Championships, Participation
An unofficial count yields the participation of 61 athletes from 7 countries.


1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
The 1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge was the 25th edition of what is now known as the Davis Cup. For the silver anniversary, 24 teams would enter the Europe Zone, while 4 would enter the America Zone.


1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge
The United States defeated Italy in the Inter-Zonal play-off, but would lose to France in the Challenge Round, giving France their fourth straight title, in the sixth straight Challenge Round matchup between these teams. The final was played at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France on 25–27 July.


1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge America Zone
The America Zone was one of the two regional zones of the 1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge.


1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge America Zone
4 teams entered the America Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Final against the winner of the Europe Zone. The United States defeated Mexico in the final, and went on to face Italy in the Inter-Zonal Final.


1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge Europe Zone
The Europe Zone was one of the two regional zones of the 1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge.


1930 International Lawn Tennis Challenge Europe Zone
24 teams entered the Europe Zone, with the winner going on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Final against the winner of the America Zone. Italy defeated Japan in the final, and went on to face the United States in the Inter-Zonal Final.


1930 International University Games
The 1930 International University Games were organised by the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE) and held in Darmstadt, Germany. Held from 1–10 August, thirty nations competed in a programme of eight sports. Women competed only in the athletics and swimming events.


1930 Invercargill by-election
The 1930 Invercargill by-election was a by-election during the 23rd New Zealand Parliament in the Southland electorate of Invercargill. The by-election occurred following the death of Sir Joseph Ward on 8 July 1930. The by-election, which was held on 13 August, was won by the late Prime Minister's second son, Vincent Ward against James Hargest.


1930 Invercargill by-election, Background
Sir Joseph Ward had suffered a defeat in the 1919 election, was ageing and often of poor health. It was generally expected that his political career was over. He attempted a comeback but suffered a humiliating defeat in the 1923 by-election in the Tauranga electorate. He managed to get re-elected in the Invercargill electorate in the 1925 election, when he had a "wafer-thin 159-vote victory" over James Hargest of the Reform Party.


1930 Invercargill by-election, Background
Sir Joseph contested the 1928 election as the new leader of the United Party against the solicitor Stanley Morell Macalister (known as Morell Macalister), who stood for Reform. Soon after the 1928 election, Sir Joseph became Prime Minister for the second time. Under pressure from party colleagues, he resigned as Prime Minister due to ill health in May 1930. Sir Joseph died less than two months later on 8 July.


1930 Invercargill by-election, Candidates
Over the last years, Vincent Ward had acted as a political assistant to his father. He was nominated by the United Party in the resulting by-election, which was held on 13 August. His selection was not supported by all, and some had preferred William Hinchey, a former Mayor of Bluff.


1930 Invercargill by-election, Candidates
Ward Jr. was opposed by James Hargest, who had been narrowly beaten by Ward Sr. in the 1925 general election. Hargest was regarded as a capable candidate, and he dealt with being heckled in large meetings quite well. Hargest claimed that as a director of a North Island company, Ward as an absentee could not effectively represent the Invercargill electorate. Hargest also appealed to Labour voters that he worked as hard as they did. He defended himself against the view that it should be Ward's right to succeed his father.


1930 Invercargill by-election, Candidates
Just before nominations closed, the independent candidate William Hinchey withdrew from the contest. The local Labour Party branch apparently had decided on the Rev John Archer, at the time the Mayor of Christchurch, as their first choice. Second choice was William Denham an Invercargill City Councillor (who was elected as Invercargill's MP in 1935). Then, Tom O'Byrne was considered as a candidate. It is unclear why the decision was made not to stand a candidate.


1930 Invercargill by-election, Candidates
Election meetings were well attended. Hargest had over 2000 attendees at his last meeting in the town hall.


1930 Invercargill by-election, Election results, By-election results
Hargest was beaten in by Ward Jr., who had a majority of 571 votes (5.82%).


1930 Invercargill by-election, Election results, By-election results
Vincent Ward retired at the end of the term in 1931. Hargest won the 1931 election in the Invercargill electorate and remained an MP until his death in 1944. Ward was called to the Legislative Council in 1934 and served there until his death in 1946.


1930 Iowa Hawkeyes football team
The 1930 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1930 college football season. Iowa played only one conference game during the 1930 season as they were banned from the Big Ten Conference in January 1930 during the time the conference scheduled football games, before being reinstated in February.


1930 Iowa Senate election
The 1930 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1930 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 21 of the state senate's 50 districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.


1930 Iowa Senate election
A statewide map of the 50 state Senate districts in the 1930 elections is provided by the Iowa General Assembly


1930 Iowa Senate election
The primary election on June 2, 1930 determined which candidates appeared on the November 4, 1930 general election ballot.


1930 Iowa Senate election
Following the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa state Senate with 48 seats to Democrats' 2 seats.


1930 Iowa Senate election
To claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 24 Senate seats.


1930 Iowa Senate election
Republicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1930 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 44 seats and Democrats having 6 seats (a net gain of 4 seats for Democrats).


1930 Iowa State Cyclones football team
The 1930 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) in the Big Six Conference during the 1930 college football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach Noel Workman, the Cyclones compiled a 0–9 record (0–5 against conference opponents), finished in last place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 134 to 64. They played their home games at State Field in Ames, Iowa.


1930 Iowa State Cyclones football team
Maynard Spear was the team captain. No Iowa State player was selected as a first-team all-conference player.


1930 Iowa gubernatorial election
The 1930 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1930. Republican nominee Dan W. Turner defeated Democratic nominee Fred P. Hagemann with 65.74% of the vote.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 20 October 1930 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies. For every twenty thousand male citizens, one Member of Parliament was elected to the Chamber of Deputies (Majlis an-Nuwwab), the dominant chamber of Parliament over the Senate. It was the third election since the establishment of the parliament.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election
Nuri al-Said, who was appointed as Prime Minister on 23 March 1930, gathered his supporters to win a total of 70 seats, surpassing the seats needed for a majority by 25 and increasing the number of seats won in the 1928 election by 4. The opposition's People's Party had a large drop, losing 9 seats which resulted in them being a dominated minority in the council. Also, five seats were won by Independent politicians.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Election process
According to the Electing Law and the Basic Law of 1925, all Iraqi male citizens over the age of 18 on the date of the election were permitted to vote. In the parliamentary elections, voting took place in all parliamentary constituencies, where the preliminary electors elected secondary electors, who in turn elected members of the parliament (MPs) to seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Each parliamentary constituency of Iraq elected one MP to the Council of Representatives using the Indirect election system. If one party obtained the majority of seats, that party was entitled to form the Government.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Background
During Abdul-Muhsin Al-Saadoun's second term as a Prime Minister, after the 1925 election, he founded the Progress Party to support the government and get an overall majority. King Faisal I wanted to remove Al-Saadoun from his office after the latter's tries to reduce the king's authorities, in which he succeeded by getting the majority of the council to vote for a different speaker than the one that was nominated by the government, resulting in his resignation. He was also concerned that he had too many allies in the British government and had the trust of the High Commissioner, so he made his two loyal men, Nuri al-Said and Jafar al-Askari, join his party and sabotage it.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Background
After the resignation of Naji al-Suwaydi's ministry, in 1930, Faisal I appointed Nuri al-Said as the Prime Minister who postponed the meetings of the Progress Party dominated council so he could insure the approval of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930) by the council before dissolving it on 1 July, after signing the treaty, arguing that treaty will put Iraq in a new political situation, so it would be wise to seek the people's opinion about the treaty. The MPs objected and filed a complaint to the king, stating that the dissolution of the council violates the law and requesting the appointment of a new neutral ministry.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Background
The opposition's National Party held a meeting, where their leader, Jaafar Abu Al-Timman, decided to boycott the election and called upon the people to boycott it as well but not many agreed with this decision and most of the party's followers attended the polling stations because the opposition's other party, People's Party, participated in it.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Pro-government
To guarantee the Sheikhs' loyalty, the government started giving them lands in the outskirts of cities and villages, and threatened to kick its people out if necessary. They took advantage of the country's financial hardship and need to organize the employees of the state's departments to announce a law that gives the authority of firing employees from their jobs to the Prime Minister, hinting that the firing will depend on the employee's political stance. During the preliminary election, Nuri al-Said did a tour in governorates of Basra, Hilla, Diwaniya, and Muntafiq where he, directly, presented the names of his supporters' candidates to the governors, inspectors, and administrators.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, Pro-government
On the day of the election, taking advantage of the financial hardship once again, al-Said stated that the relations with London went beyond political affairs and that he succeeded in guaranteeing a sum of more than 50,000,000 rupees to be added to the treasury. He also stated that the government will lower the price of fuel, especially for farmers.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Campaign, People's Party
The only electoral activity that the opposition's party participated in was a speech by Yasin al-Hashimi, on the day before the election day, to the secondary electors, in which he criticized the government, claiming that they would rationalize anything for the sake of getting a majority in the parliament to approve on the treaty. He also stated that the opposition is getting shamed by the government for the unification of their word and that their views were disregarded considering the treaty.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Governmental interferences
Before the election, the government elected British inspection bodies to monitor the election, which was widely refused by the opposition, stating that the government doesn't fight for a majority, they just get an artificial one. At the same time, the Ministry of Interior summoned the governors that the government doubted their intentions to Baghdad and assigned undersecretaries during the election to, allegedly, hold a meeting that discusses the candidature of the representatives, to make sure that the governors who support the outgoing Minister of Finance who resigned, Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi, don't switch to the opposition's side. The government also coordinated with the British via the consultant of the Ministry of Interior who requested from the inspection bodies across the governorates to supply them with lists of the candidates and the possibility of them voting in favor of the treaty, against it, and the dubitable ones.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Governmental interferences
Due to the treaty not mentioning the Kurds' privileges, the citizens in Sulaymaniyah boycotted the election and soon after that, on 6 September, more than fifty people began a riot where they assaulted the police and the army, resulting in the death of a soldier and 13 rioters, the injury of ten police officers and two soldiers, and the detention of more than a hundred rioters. The inspection bodies also forced some of the people that boycotted the election in Shawkah into participating in the election by faking a funeral in a mosque, which they went to.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Governmental interferences
Upon the resignation of Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi from the Ministry of Finance, Nuri al-Said nominated the Minister of Interior, Jamil al-Midfai, for the ministry so the former could take the Ministry of Interior, especially after al-Midfai objected on some of the government's candidates and suggested other people that al-Said didn't see fit, along with the British government's doubts surrounding him and the expectation of him helping his friend, Yasin al-Hashimi, to obtain the majority. Al-Said eventually held the Ministry of Interior on 10 October. He also requested from his candidates to pledge and swear on voting in favor of the treaty.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Governmental interferences
Al-Said tried to divide the National Party which boycotted the election by winning Bahjat Zeenal to his side, taking advantage of their friendship, and Mohammed Mahdi Al-Baseer who was given a scholarship to Cairo One of the party's leading members, Abdul-Ghafour Al-Badri, was threatened by a retired military officer that he would eliminate him which made him resign from the party.


1930 Iraqi parliamentary election, Governmental interferences
The People's Party filed a number of complaints to the king of the illegitimacy of the election, published the names of the people who boycotted the election in the newspapers, called for a working strike, and organized demonstrations, which were suppressed by the government.


1930 Irish Greyhound Derby
The 1930 National Derby took place during August and September with the final being held at Harold's Cross Stadium in Dublin on 5 September 1930. It was the third edition of the event. The race at this stage was considered unofficial because it had not been ratified by the Irish Coursing Club.


1930 Irpinia earthquake
The 1930 Irpinia earthquake occurred at 00:08 UTC on 23 July, chiefly in an area known as Irpinia. It had a surface wave magnitude of 6.6 and a maximum intensity of X (Very destructive). The event caused 1,404 deaths and 4,624–7,000 injuries. The epicenter was near the boundaries between the regions of Basilicata, Apulia, and Campania.


1930 Irpinia earthquake, Tectonic setting
The central and southern part of the Apennines has been characterised by extensional tectonics since the Pliocene epoch (i.e. about the last five million years), with most of the active faults being normal in type and NW-SE trending. The extension is due to the back-arc basin in the Tyrrhenian Sea opening faster than the African Plate is colliding with the Eurasian Plate. To the northeast of the Apennine chain, the foreland is in contrast affected by W-E trending strike-slip to oblique-slip faults.


1930 Irpinia earthquake, Damage
The area affected covered about 6,300 km2 (2,400 sq mi), lying between the Garigliano River, the Crati valley, and the Biferno and Murgia areas, including parts of high Irpinia, the Vulture area, the Sannio Hills, Salerno, Naples, the province of Matera and the highest parts of Apulia. In the worst damaged areas, about seven out of ten houses were almost completely destroyed, an outcome made worse by the poor strength of many buildings. The death toll was reported as 1,404, with some three quarters of the victims being in the province of Avellino. The death toll was low, considering the level of physical damage, a fact partly explained by the number of villagers who were away from their houses, many sleeping in the fields while working on the wheat harvest.


1930 Irpinia earthquake, Characteristics
The main shock was preceded by two foreshocks a few hours earlier and followed by 16 aftershocks within the first 24 hours. The greatest intensity of X (Very destructive)) on the European Macroseismic Scale was recorded at Aquilonia Vecchia, Lacedonia and Villanova del Battista. Intensities of IX (Destructive) were recorded at Anzano degli Irpini, Scampitella, Castel Baronia, Melfi, Montecalvo Irpino, Rocchetta Sant'Antonio and Trevico. The area of maximum intensity is elongated in a roughly W-E direction. Analysis of historical seismograph recordings suggest that the earthquake originated from a north-dipping fault plane striking N100°E.


1930 Isle of Man TT
The 1930 Isle of Man Tourist Trophy was dominated by the Rudge marque. Despite problems in practice for Rudge and the new George Hicks designed four-valve over-head valve motor-cycles the 1930 Junior TT was a closely contested race. At the end of the first lap, Charlie Dodson riding for Sunbeam led the Rudge of H. G. Tyrell Smith by only 4 seconds. On lap 2, a dead-heat was posted between Dodson and Tyrell Smith both completing the Snaefell mountain course in 1 hour, 3 minutes and 32 seconds. At Kirk Michael on lap 3, Charlie Dodson retires with valve problems, leaving Tyrell Smith to win the 7 lap race at an average speed of 71.08 mph (114.39 km/h) from Rudge team-mates Ernie Nott and Graham Walker.


1930 Isle of Man TT
The 1930 Lightweight TT was initially led by the South African rider Joe Sarkis riding an OK-Supreme motor-cycle and on lap 1 set a time of 33 minutes and 55 seconds to lead Wal Handley riding for Rex-Acme motor-cycles by 39 seconds. At Union Mills on lap 2, Joe Sarkis stops to make adjustments and Wal Handley retires with oil-tank problems at Braddan Bridge. This hands the lead to Jimmie Guthrie riding an AJS motor-cycle and leads Joe Sarkis by 21 seconds on lap 3. At the East Mountain Gate on lap 4, Joe Sarkis stops a second time and retires and the 1930 Lightweight TT Race provided a first-time win for Jimmie Guthrie riding an AJS motor-cycle in 4 hours, 4 minutes and 56 seconds at average race speed of 64.71 mph (104.14 km/h).


1930 Isle of Man TT
The 1930 Senior TT Race was again a closely contested race between Rudge and the other manufacturers and also Wal Handley and Tyrell Smith. This time on the first lap Wal Handley led Tyrell Smith also riding for the Rudge marque by 39 seconds.


1930 Isle of Man TT
Despite the poor weather conditions and heavy rain in the last two laps, the 1930 Senior TT Race was again won by Rudge motor-cycles with Wal Handley becoming the first TT rider to win in all three major TT Race classes at an average race speed of 74.24 mph (119.48 km/h) and having to hold top-gear in place with his toe. Also, Wal Handley set a new overall lap record of 29 minutes and 41 seconds an average speed of 76.28 mph (122.76 km/h), the first lap under 30 minutes of the Snaefell mountain course.


1930 Isle of Man TT, Senior TT (500cc)
20 June 1930 – 7 laps (264.11 miles) Mountain Course.


1930 Isle of Man TT, Junior TT (350cc)
16 June 1930 – 7 laps (264.11 miles) Mountain Course.


1930 Isle of Man TT, Lightweight TT (250cc)
18 June 1930 – 7 laps (264.11 miles) Mountain Course.


1930 Japanese general election
General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1930. The Rikken Minseitō, which was led by Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi, won an overall majority in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 83.34%.


1930 Java Championship
The 1930 Perserikatan season (known as the Java Championship) was the inaugural season of the Indonesian Perserikatan football competition since its establishment in 1930.


1930 Java Championship
It was contested by 4 teams as Bond Mataram, Solo Voetbalbond (S.V.B. ), Surabaja Indies Voetbalbond (S.I.V.B.) and Voetbalbond Indies Jakarta (V.I.J.). V.I.J. won the championship.


1930 Jefferson Lawyers football team
The 1930 Jefferson  Lawyers football team was an American football team that represented Jefferson Law School in Dallas, Texas, (eventually known as Jefferson University by 1931) during the 1930 college football season. In its first season of intercollegiate football, Jefferson compiled a 1–3 record. Clyde Waller was the head coach and was succeeded by Buddie King for the last game. Frankie Estes was the team captain. The team played its home games at high school fields in Dallas.


1930 Jefferson Lawyers football team
Jefferson Law School was opened in 1919 originally as just a law school by Andrew J. Priest in downtown. One of its early faculty members was Judge Sarah T. Hughes. The school achieved some success training lawyers and had a high graduation rate. Jefferson was rebranded as Jefferson University in 1931 as it added additional colleges such as engineering, liberal arts, business, commerce, and secretarial training. Its first intercollegiate football game was against Southwest Vocational College, located in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Jefferson won that first game 25–6, but finished its season with three losses.


1930 KF Tirana season
The 1930 season was Klubi i Futbollit Tirana's first competitive season in a major competition, which was the National Championship. The club won the championship and were crowned the inaugural champions of Albania. Two of the club's players Rexhep Maçi and Emil Hajnali were the season's top goalscorers with 3 goals each.


1930 Kansas Jayhawks football team
The 1930 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Six Conference during the 1930 college football season. In their third season under head coach Bill Hargiss, the Jayhawks compiled a 6–2 record (4–1 against conference opponents), won the Big Six championship, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 144 to 50. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas. Charles Smoot was the team captain. The Jayhawks were Big 6 champions. It is to date the last conference championship Kansas has won without sharing the title.


1930 Kansas State Wildcats football team
The 1930 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1930 college football season.


1930 Kansas gubernatorial election
The 1930 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1930. Harry H. Woodring was elected Governor of Kansas, becoming only the fourth member of the Democratic Party to hold the position in state history. He won with only 34.96% of the vote, with the remainder being split between Republican candidate Frank Haucke and independent write-in candidate John R. Brinkley. Woodring's final margin of victory over Haucke was just 251 votes, or 0.04 percent. The incumbent governor, Republican Clyde M. Reed, did not stand for re-election.


1930 Kansas gubernatorial election, Campaign and voting controversy
After losing his medical and broadcast licenses, "goat-gland doctor" John R. Brinkley decided to run for governor, a position that would enable him to appoint his own members to the medical board and thus regain his right to practice medicine. He began his candidacy in September 1930, just three days after he lost his medical license. He used his radio station to help his campaign, including recruiting a country music star to campaign for him. He also made use of several other publicity stunts. Brinkley campaigned on a vague program that included public works (a state lake in every county), education (free textbooks for public schoolchildren and increased educational opportunities for African Americans), lower taxes, and old-age pensions.


1930 Kansas gubernatorial election, Campaign and voting controversy
Because Brinkley announced his campaign so late, he had to run as a write-in candidate. Three days before the election, the Attorney General of Kansas (a known opponent) announced that the rules surrounding write-in candidates had changed, and that Brinkley's name could only be written in in one specific way for the vote to count (as "J. R. Brinkley"). An article published at the time in The Des Moines Register estimated that between 30,000 and 50,000 ballots were disqualified in this manner. The successful candidate, Woodring, later admitted he would have lost had all of Brinkley's votes been counted.


1930 Kansas gubernatorial election, Results
Woodring won 39 counties (including Rawlins County by a single vote), Haucke won 38 counties, and Brinkley 28 counties.


1930 Kategoria e Dytë
The 1930 Kategoria e Dytë was the first season of the second tier of football in Albania. It was contested by 5 teams and Muzaka Berat were crowned champions and Bardhyli Lezhë finished in second place.


1930 Kent State Golden Flashes football team
The 1930 Kent State Golden Flashes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State College (later renamed Kent State University) during the 1930 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Merle E. Wagoner, Kent State compiled a 3–3–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 61 to 42.


1930 Kentucky Derby
The 1930 Kentucky Derby was the 56th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 17, 1930. Horse Busy scratched before the race.


1930 Kentucky Wildcats football team
The 1930 Kentucky Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of Kentucky in the Southern Conference during the 1930 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Harry Gamage, the Wildcats compiled a 5–3 record (4–3 against conference opponents), tied for 11th place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 207 to 55. The team played its home games at McLean Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky.


1930 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
The 1930 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 36th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.


1930 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
On 12 October 1930, Tullaroan won the championship after a 4-04 to 0-03 defeat of first-time finalists Urlingford in the final. It was their 15th championship title overall and their first title in five championship seasons.


1930 LFF Lyga
The 1930 LFF Lyga was the 9th season of the LFF Lyga football competition in Lithuania. It was contested by 19 teams, and KSS Klaipėda won the championship.


1930 LSU Tigers football team
The 1930 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) in the 1930 college football season.


1930 Lafayette Leopards football team
The 1930 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College in the Middle Three Conference during the 1930 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Herb McCracken, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record. Raymond Woodfin was the team captain.


1930 Lane Cove state by-election
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Lane Cove on 26 July 1930 because of the death of Bryce Walmsley (Nationalist).


1930 Latvian Higher League, Overview
It was contested by 7 teams, and RFK won the championship.


1930 Latvian presidential election
The 1930 presidential elections in Latvia took place in April 8 and 9, 1930, during the term of the 3rd Saeima. Incumbent president Gustavs Zemgals refused to run again, so, like in the 1927 elections, many rounds of voting were required until the Latvian Farmers' Union candidate Alberts Kviesis was elected president and became the 3rd President of Latvia.


1930 Latvian presidential election, Election process and results
The presidential election began on April 8, 1930. In the first round of elections, the Chairman of the Chamber of Courts Alberts Kviesis, the long-term Speaker of the Saeima from the LSDSP Pauls Kalniņš and the Communist candidate Ernests Miezis participated. In the first vote, Kviesis received 47 votes, Kalniņš received 36 votes, and Miezis received 6. In the second vote, Kviesis received 47 votes, Kalniņš received 32, and Miezis received 5. In the third vote, the candidates were Kviesis and Kalniņš. Kviesis received 46 votes while Kalniņš received 33. In the fourth round there was only one candidat, Kviesis, who received 49 votes. Consequently, the elections were planned to continue at the next sitting of the Saeima.


1930 Latvian presidential election, Election process and results
Elections continued on April 9. Kviesis and Kalniņš were nominated as candidates for the second round. In the first ballot, Kviesis received 47 votes, Kalniņš received 35. In the second ballot, Kviesis again received 47 votes, Kalniņš while received 36. Only Kviesis took part in the third ballot, who received 55 votes and was elected President.


1930 Lehigh Brown and White football team
The 1930 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University during the 1930 college football season. In its third season under head coach A. Austin Tate, the team compiled a 4–5 record.


1930 Lehigh Brown and White football team
The team played its home games at Taylor Stadium in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


1930 Liechtenstein by-election
By-elections were held in Liechtenstein on 16 March 1930. By-elections were called following the resignation of the four Christian-Social People's Party members of the Landtag. The VP believed that general elections should be held in 1930 because the Landtag elected in 1928 is only continuing the term that started after the April 1926 general elections. The result was a victory for the ruling Progressive Citizens' Party, which won all four vacant seats in the Landtag. The VP did not participate in the by-elections. The result led to a debate over the introduction of proportional representation, which took place in 1939.


1930 Liechtenstein referendums
Three referendums were held in Liechtenstein during 1930. The first was held on 2 March 1930 on introducing a proportional representation system for Landtag elections, and was rejected by 60.6% of voters. The second was held on 26 October on a new media law passed by the Landtag, and rejected by just three votes. The third on 14 December concerned the building of an inland channel, and was approved by 70.5% of voters.


1930 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 1930 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 36th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.


1930 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
Young Irelands won the championship after a 4-02 to 1-04 defeat of Newcastle West in the final. It was their sixth championship title overall and their first title in two years.


1930 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1930.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic election 10 November 1930
The term of office of Alderman Henry Morley Miller (Conservative, elected as an alderman on 10 November 1924) expired on 10 November 1930 and he was re-elected for a further 5-year term by the Councillors on that date.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic Election 7 January 1931
Following the death of Alderman Thomas Wafer Byrne (Labour, elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), Councillor Herbert Edward Rose (Labour, Breckfield, elected on 1 November 1929) was elected by the councillors as an alderman on 7 January 1931.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic Election 1 April 1931
Following the death on 17 December 1930 of Alderman John Gordon J.P. (Conservative, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), Councillor Frank Campbell Wilson J.P. (Conservative, Aigburth, elected 1 November 1929) was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 1 April 1931


1930 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic Election 6 May 1931
Following the death on 24 December 1930 of Alderman John George Moyles M.B.E. J.P. (Conservative, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), Councillor Herbert John Davis (Conservative, Allerton, elected 1 November 1929) was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 6 May 1931.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic elections, Aldermanic Election 7 October 1931
Following the resignation of Alderman Richard Rutherford (Conservative, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), which was reported to the Council on 2 September 1931, Councillor Sir Thomas White (Conservative Party, St. Domingo, elected 1 November 1928) was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 7 October 1931.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 30 Breckfield, 24 March 1931
Following the death of Alderman Thomas Wafer Byrne, Councillor Herbert Edward Rose (Labour, Breckfield, elected on 1 November 1929) was elected by the councillors as an alderman on 7 January 1931, causing a vacancy in the Breckfield ward.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 17 Aigburth, 20 May 1931
Following the death on 17 December 1930 of Alderman John Gordon J.P. (Conservative, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), Councillor Frank Campbell Wilson J.P. (Conservative, Aigburth, elected 1 November 1929) was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 1 April 1931, causing a vacancy in the Aigburth ward.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 35 Allerton, 6 October 1931
Following the death on 24 December 1930 of Alderman John George Moyles M.B.E. J.P. (Conservative, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), Councillor Herbert John Davis (Conservative, Allerton, elected 1 November 1929) was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 6 May 1931, causing a vacancy in the Allerton ward.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 13 Prince's Park, Thursday 23 July 1931
Caused by the death on 22 February 1931 of Councillor Miss Margaret Beavan (Conservative, Prince's Park, last elected 1 November 1930).


1930 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 23 St. Domingo
Following the resignation of Alderman Richard Rutherford (Conservative, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), which was reported to the Council on 2 September 1931, Councillor Sir Thomas White (Conservative Party, St. Domingo, elected 1 November 1928) was elected as an alderman by the councillors on 7 October 1931, thereby causing a vacancy in the St. Domingo ward.


1930 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 4 Vauxhall
Caused by the resignation of Councillor Dr. Percy Henry Hayes (Labour, Vauxhall, last elected on 1 November 1929), which was reported to the Council on 21 October 1931.


1930 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 1930 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 20th edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 29 May 1930. The race started and finished in Liège. The race was won by Hermann Buse.


1930 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team
The 1930 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (now known as Louisiana Tech University) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1930 college football season. In their first year under head coach George Bohler, the team compiled a 3–6 record.


1930 Louisville Cardinals football team
The 1930 Louisville Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the University of Louisville as a member of the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) during the 1930 college football season. In their sixth and final season under head coach Tom King, the Cardinals compiled a 5–3 record.


1930 Loyola Lions football team
The 1930 Loyola Lions football team was an American football team that represented Loyola University of Los Angeles (now known as Loyola Marymount University) as an independent during the 1930 college football season. In their first season under head coach Tom Lieb, the Lions compiled a 2–3–1 record.


1930 Loyola Wolf Pack football team
The 1930 Loyola Wolf Pack football team was an American football team that represented Loyola College of New Orleans (now known as Loyola University New Orleans) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1930 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Clark Shaughnessy, the team compiled a 9–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 217 to 52. The team played its home games at Loyola University Stadium in New Orleans.


1930 Lucifer
1930 Lucifer, provisional designation 1964 UA, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 34 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 29 October 1964, by American astronomer Elizabeth Roemer at the Flagstaff station (NOFS) of the United States Naval Observatory (USNO). It is named after Lucifer, the "shining one" or "light-bearer" from the Hebrew Bible.


1930 Lucifer, Orbit
Lucifer orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.5–3.3 AU once every 4 years and 11 months (1,802 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.14 and an inclination of 14° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as 1954 SQ at Goethe Link Observatory in 1954, extending the body's observation arc by 10 years prior to its official discovery observation at NOFS.


1930 Lucifer, Physical characteristics, Spectral type
In the SMASS taxonomy, Lucifer is a Cgh-type that belongs to the carbonaceous C-group of asteroids.


1930 Lucifer, Physical characteristics, Diameter and albedo
According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Lucifer measures between 27.00 and 39.61 kilometers in diameter, and its surface has an albedo between 0.05 and 0.1058. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0886 and calculates a diameter of 26.90 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 11.1.


1930 Lucifer, Physical characteristics, Rotation and pole axis
In October 2003, a rotational lightcurve of Lucifer was obtained from photometric observations by American astronomer Brian Warner at his Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 13.056 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.44 magnitude (U=3).


1930 Lucifer, Physical characteristics, Rotation and pole axis
In January 2005, observations by astronomer Horacio Correia gave a concurring period of 13.054 hours and an amplitude of 0.22 magnitude (U=3). In 2013, another lightcurve was obtained at the Palomar Transient Factory (U=2), and a modeled lightcurve from various data sources, including the AstDyS database, gave another concurring period of 13.0536 hours and found a pole of (32.0°,17.0°).


1930 Lucifer, Naming
Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names reads "Named for the proud, rebellious archangel, identified with Satan, who was expelled from heaven". The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 (M.P.C. 4419).


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election
The fourth legislative council election to Madras Presidency after the establishment of dyarchical system of government by the  Government of India Act, 1919 in September 1930. Justice party won the election and P. Munuswamy Naidu became the first Chief Minister. The main opposition party - Swaraj Party did not contest the elections due to its participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement.


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Background
The election was held amid the severe world economic depression. Justice party decided to open its doors for Brahmans after a resolution made in the executive committee meeting held on 15 June 1930. Congress decided to boycott the election again in a meeting held in Lahore in 1929. 17 of its council members including Sathyamurthy, resigned their membership. Though the Congress did not participate in the election, it allowed its individual members like Swami Venkatachalam Chettiar and R. K. Shanmugam Chettiar to contest as Independents.


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Background
Therefore, the contest was solely between the Justice Party and what was called Independent Nationalist party (former ministerialists) headed by P. Subbarayan. Justice party's leader, Raja of Panagal had died on 16 December 1928 and it was led by P. Munuswamy Naidu. It had a tumultuous relationship with Subbarayan's Independent Nationalists - cooperating in some issues and openly quarreling on some other.


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Constituencies
The Madras Legislative Council had a total of 132 members in addition to the ex officio members of the Governor's Executive Council. Out of the 132, 98 were elected from 61 constituencies of the presidency. The constituencies comprised three arbitrary divisions - 1)communal constituencies such as non-Muhammadan urban, non-Muhammadan rural, non-Brahman urban, Mohamaddan urban, Mohamaddan rural, Indian Christian, European and Anglo-Indian 2)special constituencies such as landholders, Universities, planters and trade associations (South India Chamber of Commerce & Nattukottai Nagarathar Association) and 3) territorial constituencies. 28 of the constituencies were reserved for non-Brahmans.


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Constituencies
29 members were nominated, out of whom a maximum of 19 would be government officials, 5 would represent women, 5 would represent the Paraiyar, Pallar, Valluvar, Mala, Madiga, Sakkiliar, Thottiyar, Cheruman and Holeya communities and 1 would represent the "backward tracts". Including the Executive Council members, the total strength of the legislature was 134.


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Results
About 43% of the electorate comprising about 4% of the Presidency's population voted in the election. (The franchise was limited based on property qualifications.) Justice party won 35 seats out of the 45 it contested in the election. Independent Nationalist party and Liberals together won less 10 seats. Most of the other seats were won by independents. 35 of the 98 elective seats were won without any contest.


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Government formation
The Governor of Madras, George Frederick Stanley, nominated 32 non-elected members including officials immediately after the election and invited the Justice Party form the Government. B. Ramachandra Reddy was elected as the President of the council. On 27 October 1930, B. Munuswami Naidu took charge as Chief Minister. P. T. Rajan and S. Kumaraswami Reddiar became the other two members of the Justice ministry. P. Subbarayan, former Chief Minister became opposition leader. Soon after Munuswamy Naidu formed the government, the Justice Party was torn apart by factionalism.


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Government formation
The Zamindars who had supported the Justice Party were disgruntled at the fact that two of the foremost landlords of the Presidency, the Raja of Bobbili and the Kumara Raja of Venkatagiri had not been included in the Cabinet. In November 1930, the disgruntled Zamindars formed a faction  "ginger group" under the leadership of M. A. Muthiah Chettiar. This faction succeeded in forcing Naidu's resignation as party leader and as chief minister. On 5 November 1932, the Raja of Bobbili took over as chief minister.


1930 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Impact
This was the last election won by the Justice party. Intra party factionalism, unpopular policies, resurgence of the Congress with rising nationalism among the people all combined to ensure that it would never win another election during its existence. The party was split between the Zamindari and the non-Zamindari factions which struggled for power. The Zamindari faction eventually won and its leader the Raja of Bobbili became the chief minister. His pro-land owner economic policies amidst the Great Depression were hugely unpopular and contributed to the party's defeat in the 1934 and 1937 elections.


1930 Maine Black Bears football team
The 1930 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the New England Conference during the 1930 college football season. In its tenth season under head coach Fred Brice, the team compiled a 3–4 record (2–1 against conference opponents). The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Orono, Maine. Cecil Horne was the team captain.


1930 Maine gubernatorial election
The 1930 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 8, 1930. Incumbent Republican Governor William Tudor Gardiner defeated Democratic candidate Edward C. Moran Jr..


1930 Major League Baseball season
The 1930 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 14 to October 8, 1930. The St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Athletics were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Athletics then defeated the Cardinals in the World Series, four games to two.


1930 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team
The 1930 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team represented Marquette University as an independent during the 1930 college football season. In its ninth season under head coach Frank Murray, the team compiled an undefeated 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 155 to 7. The sole setback was a scoreless tie with Gus Dorais' Detroit Titans on November 15. Marquette played its home games at Marquette Stadium in Milwaukee.


1930 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team
Frank Murray was Marquette's head football coach for 19 years and was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.


1930 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
The 1930 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the West Virginia Athletic Conference during the 1930 college football season. In its second season under head coach John Maulbetsch, the team compiled a 3–5–1 record, 3–0–1 against conference opponents, and was outscored by a total of 130 to 111. Tom Stark was the team captain.


1930 Maryland Aggies football team
The 1930 Maryland Aggies football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1930 college football season. In their 20th season under head coach Curley Byrd, the Aggies compiled a 7–5 record (4–2 in conference), finished in sixth place in the Southern Conference, and outscored their opponents 231 to 142.


1930 Maryland gubernatorial election
The 1930 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1930. Incumbent Democrat Albert Ritchie defeated Republican nominee William Frederick Broening with 55.96% of the vote.


1930 Massachusetts Aggies football team
The 1930 Massachusetts Aggies football team represented Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1930 college football season. The team was coached by Charles McGeoch and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. The 1930 season was the team's last as M.A.C., as the school would change their name to Massachusetts State College the following year. Massachusetts finished the season with a record of 1–8.


1930 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1930 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1930.


1930 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
Incumbent Republican Governor Frank G. Allen was defeated by Democrat Joseph B. Ely. This election marked the beginning of a new era for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, starting a string of eight consecutive years of Democratic governors, a streak later surpassed from 1974 until 1986.


1930 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Governor, Results
The Democratic primary featured a rematch of the 1922 primary between Joseph Ely and John Fitzgerald. This time, Ely won with 54.7% of the vote.


1930 Melbourne Cup
The 1930 Melbourne Cup was a two mile Group One handicap horse race which took place on Tuesday, 4 November 1930.


1930 Memorial Cup
The 1930 Memorial Cup final was the 12th junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions West Toronto Nationals of the Ontario Hockey Association in Eastern Canada competed against the Abbott Cup champions Regina Pats of the South Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in Western Canada. In a best-of-three series, held at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Regina won their 2nd Memorial Cup, defeating West Toronto 2 games to none.


1930 Memorial Cup, Winning roster
Yates Acaster, Frank Boll, Art Dowie, Joe Dutkowski, Ken Campbell, Dave Gilhooley, Lon McPherson, Ken Moore, Gordon Pettinger, Len Rae, Ralph Redding, Eddie Wiseman. Coach: Al Ritchie


1930 Men's British Open Squash Championship
The 1930 Squash Rackets Open Championship of Great Britain  was the first edition of the British Open Squash Championships inaugurated in 1930 so that both professionals and amateurs could play each other. The champion could be challenged by another player, normally either the professional or amateur champion for the right to earn the title of champion of Great Britain. The designated champion in 1929 was Charles Read and the challenger was the much younger Don Butcher.


1930 Men's British Open Squash Championship
The first leg was held on Sunday 7 December at the Queen's Club, West Kensington, home club to Read. The second leg was held on Monday 15 December 1930 at the Conservative Club, London, where Butcher was head professional. If the championship ended in one match each a neutral venue would have been used to determine the winner but Butcher won both matches.


1930 Mercer Bears football team
The 1930 Mercer Bears football team was an American football team that represented Mercer University as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1930 college football season. In their second year under head coach Lake Russell, the team compiled a 5–5 record.


1930 Mestaruussarja – Finnish League Championship
The 1930 Mestaruussarja season was the first completed season of Finnish Football Championship played in a league format, known locally as the Mestaruussarja, ‘Championship Series’. Prior to this, from 1908 to 1929, the championship had been decided in a cup competition, which was NOT called the Finnish Cup.


1930 Mestaruussarja – Finnish League Championship, Overview
The 1930 Mestaruussarja  was contested by 8 teams, with HIFK Helsinki claiming the inaugural championship, which was also known as the A-sarja, by winning a tiebreaker match with the scoreline of 4–1 over TPS Turku. Stjärnan Helsinki and ÅIFK Turku were relegated to the second tier, which was known as the B-sarja.


1930 Meuse Valley fog
The 1930 Meuse Valley fog killed 60 people in Belgium owing to a combination of industrial air pollution and climatic conditions in December that year.


1930 Meuse Valley fog
The River Meuse flows from France through Belgium and the Netherlands before entering the North Sea. The area in the Meuse Valley where the incident occurred is densely populated as well as having many factories. There were several thousand cases of illness over a period of two or three days and the sixty deaths occurred at the same time. Fifty-six of the deaths were to the east of Engis.


1930 Meuse Valley fog
The main symptom was dyspnea (shortness of breath) and the average age of those who died was 62, over a range of ages of 20 to 89 years. Cattle in the area were also affected. Kaj Roholm, Danish scientist and the world's leading authority on fluorine, determined that it was the fluorine gas from the nearby factories that was the killer. The exact date of this disaster is unknown. A statue and plaque commemorating those who died were inaugurated in Engis on 2 December 2000.


1930 Miami Hurricanes football team
The 1930 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami as a member of Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) in the 1930 college football season. The Hurricanes played their home games at Moore Park in Miami, Florida. The team was coached by Ernest E. Brett, in his first and only year as head coach for the Hurricanes.


1930 Miami Redskins football team
The 1930 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University as a member of the Buckeye Athletic Association (BAA) during the 1930 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Chester Pittser, Miami compiled a 4–4–1 record (1–3 against conference opponents) and finished in fourth place out of five teams in the BAA.


1930 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team
The 1930 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1930 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Elton Rynearson, the Hurons compiled a record of 6–1 and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 145 to 14. Paul D. Shoemaker was the team captain. The team played its home games at Normal Field on the school's campus in Ypsilanti, Michigan.


1930 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team
The Hurons lost their opening game, 7-0, to Michigan, a team that finished the season with an undefeated record and as champion of the Big Ten Conference. According to a United Press account of the game, the Hurons "outplayed the Wolves in two quarters, held them even in another, and broke just long enough in the third period to allow Michigan to flash through two forward passes and a lateral pass for a touchdown."


1930 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team
After losing to Michigan, the Hurons won their remaining six games, including five consecutive shutouts to end the season.


1930 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 1930 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State College in the 1930 college football season. In their second season under head coach Jim Crowley, the Spartans compiled a 5–1–2 record and played to a scoreless tie in their annual rivalry game with Michigan. In inter-sectional play, the team defeated Colgate (14–7) and North Dakota State (19–11) and lost to Georgetown (14–13).


1930 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 1930 Michigan State team played "iron man" football with few substitutions. Sophomore halfback Bob Monnett led the way, playing 440 minutes for the team, missing only 40 minutes from the team's eight games. Center Francis "Buddy" Meyers ranked second with 434 minutes played followed by quarterback Roger Grove (419 minutes), end Cecil Fogg (418 minutes), and tackles Ralph Brunette (414 minutes) and Don Ridler (411 minutes).


1930 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
On October 4, 1930, the Spartans and Michigan Wolverines played to a scoreless tie in front of a crowd of 49,900 at Michigan Stadium. The game marked the end of a losing streak for the Spartans against the Wolverines dating back to 1916. Michigan had crossed the goal line near the end of the first half, but the play was called back on an offside penalty; the first half ended before Michigan could conclude the drive.


1930 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan
One of Michigan's key players, Bill Hewitt sustained an injured ankle while playing at left end of the game; Hewitt did not play the rest of the season. The Associated Press reported that Michigan's passing attack kept the ball in Michigan State's territory much of the time but the Wolverines "lacked the scoring punch."


1930 Michigan Tech Huskies football team
The 1930 Michigan Tech Huskies football team represented Michigan Technological University as an independent during in the 1930 college football season. Led by second-year head coach  Bert Noblet, the Huskies compiled a record of 1–5.


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1930 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1930 college football season. The head coach was former Michigan star, 31-year-old Harry Kipke, in his second year in the position.


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team
The team went through the 1930 season with an undefeated 8–0–1 record, outscored opponents 111 to 23, and tied for the Big Ten Conference championship with Northwestern. The 1930 season marked the debut of Michigan's College Football Hall of Fame quarterback Harry Newman, who became a star in his first season leading the Wolverines' offense. In Newman's three years at Michigan, the Wolverines lost only one game, won three Big Ten Conference championships, and had a combined record of 24–1–2. Further, the 1930 team was the first of four consecutive Michigan teams coached by Harry Kipke to win or tie for the Big Ten championship, losing only one game from 1930 to 1933.


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team
Right halfback James Simrall was the team captain, and left halfback Jack Wheeler was selected as the Most Valuable Player. Six players from the 1930 team were selected to All-Big Ten teams, and five went on to play in the National Football League.


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 33, Denison 0
Michigan opened the 1930 football season on September 27, 1930, with an unusual football double-header, playing two games on the same afternoon. In the first game against Denison College, Coach Kipke played his "second team" squad for the entire game. The Wolverines beat Denison by a score of 33 to 0. Michigan's touchdowns against Denison were scored by quarterback Jack Wheeler (2), fullback DuVal Goldsmith, left halfback Ralph Wills, and end William D. O'Neil, Jr.


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 33, Denison 0
Michigan's starting lineup against Denison consisted entirely of second-team players: Jay Sikkenga (left end), William Gitman (left tackle), Leslie Douglass (left guard), Carlton Soelberg (center), Leslie Avery (right guard), Carl Castle (right tackle), Ivy Williamson (right end), Jack Wheeler (quarterback), Ralph Wills (left halfback), Claude Stoll (right halfback), and DuVal Goldsmith (fullback).


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 7, Michigan State Normal 0
The second game of the double-header matched the Wolverines against Michigan State Normal (now known as Eastern Michigan University) from nearby Ypsilanti. According to a United Press account of the game, the Hurons "outplayed the Wolves in two quarters, held them even in another, and broke just long enough in the third period to allow Michigan to flash through two forward passes and a lateral pass for a touchdown." Michigan's sole touchdown in the Michigan State Normal game was scored by Charles DeBaker, a "fast-running halfback from Muskegon."


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 7, Michigan State Normal 0
Michigan's starting lineup against Michigan State Normal consisted of Michigan's first-team players: Bill Hewitt (left end), Tom Samuels (left tackle), Omer LaJeunesse (right guard), Maynard Morrison (center), Francis Cornwell (right guard), Claire Purdum (right tackle), Norman Daniels (right end), Estel Tessmer (quarterback), William Heston (left halfback), James Simrall (right halfback), and Roy Hudson (fullback).


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 0, Michigan State 0
In the second week of the season, Michigan played the Michigan State Spartans to a scoreless tie in front of a crowd of 49,900 at Michigan Stadium. The game marked the end of a losing streak for the Spartans against the Wolverines dating back to 1916. Michigan had crossed the goal line near the end of the first half, but the play was called back on an offside penalty; the first half ended before Michigan could conclude the drive.


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 0, Michigan State 0
One of Michigan's key players, Bill Hewitt sustained an injured ankle while playing at left end in the game; Hewitt did not play the rest of the season. The Associated Press reported that Michigan's passing attack kept the ball in Michigan State's territory much of the time but the Wolverines "lacked the scoring punch."


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 0, Michigan State 0
The starting lineup for Michigan in the game was Bill Hewitt (left end), Howie Auer (left tackle), Francis Cornwell (left guard), Maynard Morrison (center), Omer LaJeunesse (right guard), Samuels (right tackle), Norman Daniels (right end), Estel Tessmer (quarterback), William Heston (left halfback), James Simrall (right halfback), and Roy Hudson (fullback). Substitutions were by Williamson (left end), Hozer and Purdum (right guard), Debaker and Heston (left halfback), and Newman (quarterback).


1930 Michigan Wolverines football team, Game summaries, Michigan 14, Purdue 13
In the third week of the 1930 season, Michigan played the defending Big Ten Conference champion Purdue Boilermakers at Michigan Stadium. The game marked the first start for Harry Newman as Michigan's quarterback, a position he would hold for three seasons. After Purdue took a 13-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, Michigan came back with two touchdowns in the second quarter to win the game by a score of 14 to 13.