1934 United States Senate election in New York
The 1934 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 6, 1934, to elect a U.S. Senator. Incumbent Democratic Senator Royal Copeland was re-elected to a third term in office, though he would die in office in 1938.


1934 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Convention
The Democratic State Convention was held September 27 in Buffalo. With Copeland and the rest of the Democratic ticket unopposed, the convention was uneventful. Copeland's nomination was submitted by Abraham Kaplan of Tammany Hall.


1934 United States Senate election in New York, Republican nomination, Convention
In marked contrast to the Democratic convention, the Republican convention in Rochester on September 28 was considered the most raucous for that party since 1910, when Theodore Roosevelt led a progressive revolt. The early focus of the convention was on the race for Governor, where Robert Moses won a hard-fought three-ballot struggle. After this, several other nominations were completed without opposition. After a recess of ten minutes, the Senate contest began; it quickly devolved to a contest by the delegates to find a man willing to join Moses's ticket.


1934 United States Senate election in New York, Republican nomination, Convention
First, Harold Riegelman nominated William M. Chadbourne for Senate; his nomination was seconded by William T. Simpson and Hamilton Fish III. Then, William D. Thomas nominated E. Harold Cluett; his nomination was seconded by Philip Elling of Ulster County and Frank L. Wiswall of Albany. Chadbourne ultimately declined to run, announcing his preference that another man should be nominated; Cluett was then nominated by acclamation, though some delegates attempted to humorously vote for candidates who were not in nomination. Cluett made a brief acceptance speech, pledging to give all his time and effort to the campaign.


1934 United States Senate election in Ohio
The 1934 United States Senate election in Ohio took place on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Republican Senator Simeon Fess ran for a third term in office, but was defeated by Democratic former Governor of Ohio Vic Donahey in a landslide.


1934 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania
The 1934 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator David A. Reed sought re-election to another term, but was defeated by Democratic nominee Joseph F. Guffey.


1934 United States Senate election in Tennessee
The 1934 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held on November 5, 1934. Incumbent Democratic Senator Kenneth D. McKellar was re-elected to a fourth term in office, defeating Republican former Governor Ben W. Hooper.


1934 United States Senate election in Texas
The 1934 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 4, 1934. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Tom Connally was re-elected to a second term. Connally fended off a competitive primary challenge from U.S. Representative Joseph Weldon Bailey Jr. on July 28 before facing only nominal opposition in the general election.


1934 United States Senate election in Texas
The Republican Party, whose support had been devastated by the effects of the Great Depression, did field a candidate (El Paso attorney Ulysses S. Goen) but did not factor in the election.


1934 United States Senate election in Vermont
The 1934 United States Senate election in Vermont took place on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Republican Warren Austin successfully ran for re-election to a full term in the United States Senate, defeating Democratic candidate Fred C. Martin. Austin was elected in a 1931 special election to replace Frank C. Partridge, who was appointed to fill the vacancy created by the death of Frank L. Greene.


1934 United States Senate election in Vermont, Republican primary, Campaign
Senator Austin undertook an extensive advertising and letter-writing campaign but did not directly address his opponent, who was not considered a strong threat.


1934 United States Senate election in Vermont, References, Bibliography
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1934 United States Senate election in Virginia
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1934 United States Senate election in Virginia
The 1934 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. was re-elected to his first full term after defeating Independent Hilliard Berstein.


1934 United States Senate election in Washington
The 1934 United States Senate election in Washington was held on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Democrat Clarence Dill did not run for a second term in office. He was succeeded by Democrat Lewis Schwellenbach, who defeated Republican Reno Odlin for the open seat.


1934 United States Senate election in Wisconsin
The 1934 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 6, 1934.


1934 United States Senate election in Wisconsin
Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Robert La Follette Jr. left his party and, with his brother Philip, formed the new Wisconsin Progressive Party. La Follette was re-elected on the Progressive ticket over Democrat John M. Callahan Republican John B. Chapple.


1934 United States Senate elections
The United States Senate elections of 1934 were held in the middle of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. During the Great Depression, voters strongly backed Roosevelt's New Deal and his allies in the Senate, with Democrats picking up a net of nine seats, giving them a supermajority (which required 64 seats, two-thirds of the total 96 seats in 1934).


1934 United States Senate elections, Milestones
This marked the second time since the Civil War when an incumbent president's party gained Senate seats during a midterm election, and when an incumbent president's party gained Senate seats during a midterm election after the Democrats gained three seats in 1914, half-way through Woodrow Wilson's first term. Neither party registered a net gain of Senate seats in a mid-term election again until the Democrats gained a net of four seats in 1962, at the mid-point of John F. Kennedy's term. In 1970, the Republicans gained a net of one seat during the term of Richard Nixon. In 2002, George W. Bush's party gained a net of two seats, and Donald Trump in 2018 (even though it was a wave year against his party in the house with the loss of 41 seats) had the Republican Party gain 2 seats in the senate.


1934 United States Senate elections, Gains and losses
Republicans lost ten seats: One seat changed from Republican to Progressive when an incumbent was re-elected to the new party. Democrats took nine seats, including an open seat in Maryland and the seats of eight incumbents.


1934 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections during the 73rd Congress
In these special elections, the winners were seated during 1934; ordered by election date then by state.


1934 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections leading to the 74th Congress
In these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 1935; ordered by state.


1934 United States Senate elections, New York
In New York, the whole Democratic ticket was elected in the third landslide in a row.


1934 United States Senate elections, Tennessee, Tennessee (Special)
One-term Democrat Cordell Hull resigned March 3, 1933 to become U.S. Secretary of State.


1934 United States Senate elections, Tennessee, Tennessee (Special)
Democrat Nathan L. Bachman was appointed to continue Hull's term, pending a special election which Bachman easily won.


1934 United States Senate elections, Wyoming
There were two elections to the same seat due to the November 3, 1933 death of Democrat John B. Kendrick. Democrat Joseph C. O'Mahoney was appointed to continue the term, pending a special election. O'Mahoney won both the special election and the regular election to the next term.


1934 United States Senate elections, Wyoming, Wyoming (special)
O'Mahoney would be re-elected twice and serve until his 1952 defeat.


1934 United States Senate elections in Wyoming
The 1934 United States Senate elections in Wyoming took place on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Democratic Senator John B. Kendrick died on November 3, 1933, and Joseph C. O'Mahoney was appointed by Governor Leslie A. Miller as Kendrick's replacement. Two elections for the same Senate seat were held on the same day; one as a special election to fill the remainder of Kendrick's original six-year term, and another to select a Senator to serve the next six-year term. O'Mahoney ran for re-election in both elections. He was opposed by Republican Congressman Vincent Carter. Aided by the strong performance by the Democratic Party throughout the country in 1934, and by Governor Miller's landslide re-election, O'Mahoney handily defeated Carter to win re-election.


1934 United States Senate special election in Montana
The 1934 United States Senate special election in Montana took place on November 6, 1934. Incumbent United States Senator John E. Erickson, who, as governor, had appointed himself to the seat in 1933 upon the death of Thomas J. Walsh, ran for re-election. However, he was defeated in the Democratic primary by James E. Murray, who was the former Silver Bow County Attorney and the Chairman of the State Advisory Board of the Public Works Administration. In the general election, Murray defeated Scott Leavitt, a former United States Congressman who had represented Montana's 2nd congressional district, and an independent candidate in a landslide to win his first term in the Senate.


1934 United States Senate special election in Nebraska
The 1934 United States Senate special election in Nebraska took place on November 6, 1934. A regular election was held on the same day for the same seat. The incumbent Senator, Republican Robert B. Howell, died on March 11, 1933. William Henry Thompson, a Democratic politician, was appointed to the vacant seat. Richard C. Hunter was elected to finish Howell's term, defeating J. H. Kemp, while Edward R. Burke was elected to the next term.


1934 United States Senate special election in Vermont
The 1934 United States Senate special election in Vermont took place on January 16, 1934. Republican Ernest W. Gibson, Sr. was elected to the United States Senate to serve the remainder of the deceased Porter H. Dale's term, defeating Democratic candidate Harry W. Witters.


1934 United States elections
The 1934 United States elections were held on November 6, 1934. The election took place in the middle of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, during the Great Depression. The Democrats built on the Congressional majorities they had won in the previous two elections. In the House of Representatives, Roosevelt's party gained nine seats, mostly from the Republican Party. The Democrats also gained nine seats in the U.S. Senate, thereby winning a supermajority. A Progressive also unseated a Republican in the Senate. This marked the first time since the Civil War that an incumbent president's party gained seats in a midterm election, followed by 1998 and 2002.


1934 United States elections
The election was perhaps the most successful midterm of the 20th century for the party in control of the presidency. Despite opposition from Republicans, business organizations such as the United States Chamber of Commerce, and disaffected Democrats who formed the American Liberty League, Roosevelt's New Deal policies were bolstered and his New Deal coalition was solidified. The election was critical in re-centering the Democratic Party in Northern, urban areas, as opposed to the party's traditional base in the South. Conservative Republicans also suffered major losses across the country. Future president Harry S. Truman won election as Senator from Missouri during this election.


1934 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1934, in 34 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 6, 1934 (September 10 in Maine).


1934 Upton by-election
The West Ham Upton by-election of 1934 was held on 14 May 1934. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Alfred Chotzner. It was won by the Labour candidate Benjamin Walter Gardner.


1934 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 10 teams, and Nacional won the championship.


1934 Uruguayan constitutional referendum
A constitutional referendum was held in Uruguay on 19 April 1934, alongside parliamentary elections. The new constitution was approved by 95.75% of voters.


1934 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, Background
A series of conflicts between the National Council of Administration and President Gabriel Terra led to Terra leading a presidential coup on 31 March 1933. Terra instituted a government that suspended the 1918 constitution, and elections were held for a Constitutional Assembly on 25 June. The various factions of the Colorado Party emerged as the largest group in the Assembly, winning 151 of the 284 seats.


1934 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, New constitution
The new constitution abolished the National Council of Administration and transferred its powers to the President, with President also becoming the head of government. Other changes included the Senate being equally divided between the two parties receiving the most votes, and allowing the public to propose constitutional amendments (though 20% of the electorate).


1934 Uruguayan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Uruguay on 19 April 1934, alongside a constitutional referendum. For the first time, the Senate was directly elected by voters. The result was a victory for the Batllista Colorado Party, which won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies.


1934 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1934 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State Agricultural College in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1934 college football season. In their 16th season under head coach Dick Romney, the Aggies compiled a 5–1–1, finished fourth in the RMC, and outscored all opponents by a total of 131 to 42.


1934 Utah State Aggies football team
Center Elmer "Bear" Ward was selected as a first-team All-American by the Newspaper Enterprise Association; he was the first Utah State player to be selected as a first-team All-American. Three Utah State players received first-team all-conference honors in 1934: Ward; fullback Kent Ryan; and end Joe Whitesides.


1934 Utah Utes football team
The 1934 Utah Utes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1934 college football season. In their 10th season under head coach Ike Armstrong, the Utes compiled a 5–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 150 to 42.


1934 VFA season
The 1934 Victorian Football Association season was the 56th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it defeated Coburg by 61 points in the Grand Final on 6 October. It was the club's fourth VFA premiership, and the third in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1932 until 1934; Coburg was defeated in all three Grand Finals in the sequence.


1934 VFA season
The season was threatened by a dispute in the off-season between the Association and the local councils which controlled many of the suburban home venues relating to the use of Olympic Park as a central ground; there were ultimately no disruptions after the dispute was resolved shortly before the start of the season.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Lease of the Motordrome/Olympic Park
In late 1932, the Association began negotiating with Melbourne Carnivals Limited to lease the Motordrome to use as a central ground. The Association intended that one match would be played on the Motordrome each Saturday during the home-and-away season, with each club expected to play one or two of its home games at the central ground instead of at its suburban home venue – the same way that the Victorian Football League would later utilise VFL Park in the 1970s and 1980s; all finals would also be played at the Motordrome.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Lease of the Motordrome/Olympic Park
An eight-year deal was signed in May 1933, securing the venue until the end of 1940. Under the arrangement, the Association would play one of its two leading games each round at the venue, and Melbourne Carnivals Limited would upgrade facilities such as grandstands, change rooms and fencing. Sporadic home-and-home matches were played at the venue in 1933, the first taking place in June, and all 1933 finals were held there; the intention was that the full arrangement would come into effect in 1934.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Lease of the Motordrome/Olympic Park
The Motordrome itself underwent significant upgrades during 1933. The banked concrete motor racing circuit was demolished and replaced with a flat dirt track; this was not required by the agreement with the Association, and was simply because the surface, built in 1924, was no longer suitable for the higher powered vehicles which raced on it. In June 1933, the venue was renamed Olympic Park.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Dispute with the Grounds Management Association
The push to use Olympic Park as a central ground was strongly opposed by the Grounds Management Association, a body made up of delegates representing the local councils which owned and maintained the suburban football grounds. The Grounds Management Association had several complaints:


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Dispute with the Grounds Management Association
The Association increased admission fees in 1933, to which the Grounds Management Association also objected.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Dispute with the Grounds Management Association
The councils held a strong position, as they controlled the use of their grounds, and could ban clubs from using them should they have so wished; some councils made threats to that effect during 1933. The Association guaranteed financial compensation to the affected councils – with offers including up to 15% of the Olympic Park gate and the right to sublet the ground on the day of any games which were moved – and while some of the councils accepted these offers, many others stood firm.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Dispute with the Grounds Management Association
In November 1933, with full enactment of the central ground agreement looming for the 1934 season, the Grounds Management Association issued an ultimatum that it would ban Association clubs from all of its grounds if the agreement with Melbourne Carnivals Limited was not rescinded by 21 December; the clubs stood firm, and the councils followed through, banning seven clubs – Coburg, Preston, Northcote, Brunswick, Williamstown, Port Melbourne and Camberwell – from using their grounds for training or matches until further notice.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Resolution
After the ultimatum was enacted, planning for the 1934 VFA season was severely disrupted. The Grounds Management Association put forward a proposal for the seven teams whose grounds it controlled to secede from the Association and start a new competition which was not tied to a lease at Olympic Park; and, it tried to entice the Association to rescind the agreement by offering its own venues for finals rent-free for two years, and thereafter at a generous charge of 6% of the gate, cf. the charge of 10% specified in the agreement with Olympic Park. The Association made contingency plans to provide alternative venues, not controlled by the Grounds Management Association, for its clubs to move to if required; some clubs such as Coburg were expected to be unwilling or unable to move, so the Association looked for junior clubs able to replace them.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Resolution
The Victorian Football League also took a keen interest in the dispute. The Association grounds were of good quality and high capacity in suburbs with strong population growth, and the League feared that the councils would lease the grounds to other sports, such as rugby and soccer, giving those sports a fillip which would be detrimental to football's long-term popularity in Melbourne. The Preston council, for example, already had a better offer to lease its ground to the local soccer club. As such, the League expressed a willingness to intervene, and potentially play some of its own games at Olympic Park, or even take over the Association's lease, as a means of providing some financial incentive or compensation to Melbourne Carnivals Limited should it allow the Association to break its lease.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Resolution
The dispute finally ended on 27 March 1934. It was agreed that Olympic Park would continue to be used for all finals matches, but that the suburban grounds would host all home-and-away matches; and, one delegate from the Grounds Management Association was given a position on the Victorian Football Association committee. Melbourne Carnivals Ltd agreed to amend the agreement, and went on to lease the ground to the Hakoah soccer club on Saturdays. All clubs were allowed back onto their grounds, and a full fixture featuring all twelve teams was released that same night.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Resolution
Had no compromise been reached, it is likely that Coburg, Preston, Port Melbourne and Northcote would all have transferred to other competitions or disbanded entirely.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Aftermath
Ironically, the 1934 Grand Final was played at neither Olympic Park, nor any of the suburban grounds. The match was originally scheduled for Olympic Park on 29 September, but was postponed due to inclement weather; however, Olympic Park was unavailable on the following Saturday afternoon.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Aftermath
The Association made a request to the League to play its Grand Final as a curtain raiser to the VFL Firsts Preliminary Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, but the League Seconds were not prepared to move to another venue; all of the suburban Association grounds were unavailable as they had already been topdressed for the cricket season; and, a proposal to play the match at Olympic Park on the Saturday night was abandoned because the floodlights were too dim.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Aftermath
As such, the match was moved to the only suitable venue remaining in Melbourne, the arena at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds. The Showgrounds arena was not usually used football, and arrangements were decidedly makeshift: short goalposts, a faintly-marked boundary line, and inadequate dressing rooms. Due to the remoteness of the location, and yet more inclement weather on the rescheduled day, an extremely meagre crowd of only 2,000 attended the match.


1934 VFA season, Central ground dispute, Aftermath
In 1935, the Association abandoned its arrangement at Olympic Park entirely, and returned to playing finals at suburban Association grounds.


1934 VFA season, Premiership
The home-and-home season was played over eighteen matches, a reduction from the twenty-two matches played in 1933, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.


1934 VFL Grand Final
The 1934 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and South Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 13 October 1934. It was the 38th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1934 VFL season. The match, attended by 65,335 spectators, was won by Richmond by a margin of 39 points, marking that club's fourth VFL/AFL premiership victory.


1934 VFL Grand Final
This was the second successive year in which the two teams met in the premiership decider, with South Melbourne having won the 1933 VFL Grand Final. It was also the seventh occasion in eight years that Richmond had appeared in a Grand Final. It had won just one of those earlier contests, in 1932.


1934 VFL season
The 1934 Victorian Football League season was the 38th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.


1934 VFL season, Premiership season
In 1934, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.


1934 VFL season, Premiership season
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.


1934 VFL season, Premiership season
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1934 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.


1934 VFL season, Grand final
Richmond defeated South Melbourne 19.14 (128) to 12.17 (89), in front of a crowd of 65,335 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).


1934 VPI Gobblers football team
The 1934 VPI Gobblers football team represented Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute in the 1934 college football season. The team was led by their head coach Henry Redd and finished with a record of five wins and five losses (5–5).


1934 VPI Gobblers football team, Players
The following players were members of the 1934 football team according to the roster published in the 1935 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.


1934 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1934 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University during the 1935 college football season. The Commodores were led by Dan McGugin, who served in the 30th and final year as head coach. Vanderbilt went 6–3 overall and 4–3 in the SEC, finishing sixth. They played their six home games at Dudley Field in Nashville, Tennessee. The team's captain was Eugene Beck.


1934 Vermont Catamounts football team
The 1934 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented  the University of Vermont as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In their first year under head coach John P. Sabo, the team compiled a 2–4–2 record.


1934 Vermont gubernatorial election
The 1934 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Republican Stanley C. Wilson did not run for re-election to a third term as Governor of Vermont. Republican candidate Charles M. Smith defeated Democratic candidate James P. Leamy to succeed him.


1934 Victorian Centenary Grand Prix
The Victorian Centenary Grand Prix was a motor race staged at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on Saturday, 27 October 1934. The 230 mile race, which was organised by the Australian Racing Drivers Club, was contested on a handicap basis. The race was the richest and the longest that had been held in the state of Victoria to that time, and was the first road race in Australia to be open to "catalogued racing and sports cars of all powers". Of the 22 starters, eight finished within the limit of 25 minutes after the winner. The race was won by Mick Smith, competing under the name “Gardner”, and driving a Ford V8 Roadster.


1934 Victorian Centenary Grand Prix
The Grand Prix was an official event on the centenary program  commemorating Edward Henty’s 1834 settlement at Portland, which led to the founding of the state of Victoria.


1934 Victorian Centenary Grand Prix, Results
Note: Non-finishers have been listed in starting order, due to lack of information regarding laps completed.


1934 Victorian Legislative Council election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on Saturday 9 June 1934 to elect 17 of the 34 members of the state's Legislative Council for six year terms. MLC were elected using preferential voting.


1934 Victorian Legislative Council election, Results, Legislative Council
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1934 Victorian Legislative Council election, Candidates
Sitting members are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.


1934 Villanova Wildcats football team
The 1934 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1934 college football season. The head coach was Harry Stuhldreher, coaching his tenth season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.


1934 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1934 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1934 college football season. The Cavaliers were led by first-year head coach Gus Tebell and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Southern Conference, finishing with a conference record of 1–4 and a 3–6 record overall.


1934 Volta a Catalunya
The 1934 Volta a Catalunya was the 16th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 16 June to 24 June 1934. The race started and finished in Barcelona. The race was won by Bernardo Rogora.


1934 WANFL season
The 1934 WANFL season was the 50th season of the various incarnations of the Western Australian National Football League. Following upon numerous unsuccessful attempts to revive Midland Junction during the 1920s, Bassendean-based Swan Districts were admitted to the competition.


1934 WANFL season
The black and whites were more competitive than previous new clubs owing to the presence of a number of players with previous WANFL experience, including Fred Sweetapple from West Perth, captain-coach "Judda" Bee from East Fremantle and Nigel Gorn from South Fremantle, but after five promising campaigns were to endure nineteen open-age seasons without once winning as many matches as they lost.


1934 WANFL season
The 1934 season saw the only finals success during the inter-war period for Perth, who became known as 'Victoria Park' for this season and the following as the Redlegs planned to develop a new oval at Raphael Park. Because Parliament failed to pass an Act to allow the club to acquire Raphael Park, however, Perth reverted to their old name two seasons later.


1934 WANFL season
Subiaco, after a stirring run to the 1933 Grand Final, fell to their worst season since 1922 due to the loss of Westy Gilbert and major injuries to Bill Brophy, Bill Bant, Lloyd Strack, Norm Stehn, Les Mills and Syd Briggs, whilst West Perth under the coaching of ex-Maroon Johnny Leonard were to win a second flag in three seasons over East Fremantle. Old Easts won a seventh successive minor premiership but gave a surprisingly poor display in the Grand Final.


1934 WANFL season
The 1934 season is most famous, however, for the unprecedented goalkicking success, despite some exceptionally wet Saturdays, of spearheads George Doig and Ted Tyson, both of whom completely smashed previous WANFL goalkicking records. In the end, despite neither achieving much on a windy day in the Grand Final, Doig finished with 152 goals and Tyson with 143, tallies not bettered until Bernie Naylor did so in the early 1950s.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 1
Swan Districts made their debut in the league, losing by 17 points to East Fremantle, with George Doig kicking eight goals.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 2 (Labour Day)
Swan Districts won their first WANFL game, which was also the first game played at Bassendean Oval.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 3
George Doig kicks another nine goals, whilst Victoria Park hangs on against East Perth despite not goalling in the final term.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 5
An inaccurate West Perth overhauls Subiaco, already leaving the 1933 grand finalists in danger of moving out of the running.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, First interstate match
In conditions which shocked the South Australians as Adelaide had been experiencing extremely dry weather and dust storms, Western Australia’s extraordinary accuracy with a slippery ball – 11.0 (66) to late in the second quarter – ensures the locals an untroubled victory in the first interstate match played in Perth since 1929.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Second interstate match
In conditions totally different from the rainy Saturday, South Australia produce an impressive display to win after being narrowly behind most of the afternoon.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13
In a close match of low standard due to the absence of interstate players such as George Doig, Gook, Jarvis, Shepherd, McGlinn and Fitzgerald, Victoria Park move with their narrow win and West Perth’s surprise loss to second position.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 15
West Perth win with a brilliant torpedo punt from McGarry after the bell.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 16
George Doig kicks his hundredth goal in third quarter, but East Fremantle stops to a walk and just holds on.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 17
Ted Tyson kicked fifteen goals, at the time a WA(N)FL record. In doing so, he reaches the hundred as the Cardinals inflict Claremont-Cottesloe’s biggest loss until 1952 and still their fourth-biggest ever.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 18
On another wet Saturday, East Fremantle comfortably account for West Perth even with George Doig only kicking one goal six. The final four is settled with three rounds remaining, and Old Easts seal an unprecedented seventh successive minor premiership.


1934 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 20
East Fremantle kick 17.12 (114) to 5.4 (34) after quarter-time, with George Doig kicking another thirteen goals. In the process Old Easts seal the finals matchups by depriving Victoria Park of any chance to take second position.


1934 WANFL season, Finals, First semi-final
This was Victoria Park’s first finals win since 1915 when known by their more familiar name of 'Perth', which they reverted to before their next senior finals appearance in 1947.


1934 WANFL season, Finals, Preliminary final
Despite the absence of "Checker" O‘Keefe, West Perth crush the Victoria Park attack, with Flemming holding Gook scoreless.


1934 WANFL season, Finals, Grand Final
In a dour struggle, West Perth are unexpectedly far too good for Old Easts, who are saved from a worse thrashing only by full back Dave Woods, who restricts Ted Tyson to 2.2 and kicks brilliantly.


1934 WANFL season, Notes
The nearest comparable feat would be Melbourne's six straight minor premierships between 1955 and 1960 or Port Adelaide's six minor premierships with a combined total of ten minor round losses between 1909 and 1915. Equalled by George Moloney in 1940 and Naylor in 1952.


1934 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1934 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1934 college football season. In its second season under head coach Jim Weaver, the team compiled a 3–7 record.


1934 Walker Cup
The 1934 Walker Cup, the 8th Walker Cup Match, was played on 11 and 12 May 1934, on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. The United States won by 9 matches to 2 with one match halved. The United States won three foursomes matches and six of the singles matches.


1934 Walker Cup, Format
Four 36-hole matches of foursomes were played on Friday and eight singles matches on Saturday. Each of the 12 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 36th hole extra holes were not played. The team with most points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.


1934 Walker Cup, Teams
The United States picked a 9-man team in early January, including Francis Ouimet as playing-captain. Great Britain and Ireland announced 8 of their 10-man team in mid-March with Michael Scott as playing-captain. Eric McRuvie and Lionel Munn were later added. Munn, from Northern Ireland, travelled to St Andrews but suffered from sciatica, withdrawing two days before the match. He was replaced by Leonard Crawley.


1934 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team
The 1934 Washington & Jefferson Presidents football team was an American football team that represented Washington & Jefferson College as an independent during the 1934 college football season. The team compiled a 4–5 record and was outscored by a total of 108 to 87. Hank Day was the head coach.


1934 Washington Huskies football team
The 1934 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1934 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Jimmy Phelan, the team compiled a 6–1–1 record, finished in third place in the Pacific Coast Conference, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 104 to 51. Woodrow Ullin was the team captain.


1934 Washington Senators season
The 1934 Washington Senators played 154 games, won 68, lost 86, and finished in seventh place in the American League. They were managed by Joe Cronin and played home games at Griffith Stadium. In the eighth inning of their game against the Boston Red Sox on June 9, the Washington Senators hit 5 consecutive doubles – the most ever hit consecutively during the same inning.


1934 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1934 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1934 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1934 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1934 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1934 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1934 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State College during the 1934 college football season. Ninth-year head coach Babe Hollingbery led the team to a 4–0–1 mark in the PCC and 4–3–1 overall.


1934 Washington State Cougars football team
The Cougars played their three home games on campus at Rogers Field in Pullman, Washington;  a road game was played in Spokane at Gonzaga.


1934 Washington University Bears football team
The 1934 Washington University Bears football team was an American football team that represented Washington University of St. Louis as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1934 college football season. In its third season under head coach Jimmy Conzelman, the team compiled a 7–3 record, won the MVC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 212 to 59. The team played its home games at Francis Field in St. Louis.


1934 Washington and Lee Generals football team
The 1934 Washington and Lee Generals football team represented Washington and Lee University during the 1934 college football season.


1934 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 1934 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 34th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.


1934 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
Erin's Own won the championship after a 6-04 to 0-02 defeat of Tallow in the final. This was their 8th championship title overall and their 8th title in succession.


1934 Wayne Tartars football team
The 1934 Wayne Tartars football team represented Wayne University (later renamed Wayne State University) as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In their third year under head coach Joe Gembis, the Tartars compiled a 7–1 record, shut out five of eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 179 to 26. Jimmy Demaree was the quarterback and star player.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike
The 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike (also known as the 1934 West Coast Longshoremen's Strike, as well as a number of variations on these names) lasted eighty-three days, and began on May 9, 1934 when longshoremen in every US West Coast port walked out. The strike peaked with the death of two workers on "Bloody Thursday" and the San Francisco General Strike which stopped all work in the major port city for four days and led ultimately to the settlement of the West Coast Longshoremen's Strike.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike
The result of the strike was the unionization of all of the West Coast ports of the United States. The San Francisco General Strike of 1934, along with the Toledo Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 led by the American Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 led by the Communist League of America, were catalysts for the rise of industrial unionism in the 1930s, much of which was organized through the Congress of Industrial Organizations.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
Longshoremen on the West Coast ports had either been unorganized or represented by company unions since the years immediately after World War I, when the shipping companies and stevedoring firms had imposed the open shop after a series of failed strikes. Longshoremen in San Francisco, then the major port on the coast, were required to go through a hiring hall operated by a company union, known as the "blue book" system for the color of the membership book.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
The Industrial Workers of the World had attempted to organize longshoremen, sailors and fishermen in the 1920s through their Marine Transport Workers Union. Their largest strike, the 1923 San Pedro Maritime Strike, bottled up shipping in that harbor, but was crushed by a combination of injunctions, mass arrests and vigilantism by the American Legion. While the IWW was a spent force after that strike, syndicalist thinking remained popular on the docks. Longshoremen and sailors on the West Coast also had contacts with an Australian syndicalist movement that called itself the "One Big Union" formed after the defeat of a general strike there in 1917.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
The Communist Party had also been active in the area in the late 1920s, seeking to organize all categories of maritime workers into a single union, the Marine Workers Industrial Union (MWIU), as part of the drive during the Third Period to create revolutionary unions. The MWIU never made much headway on the West Coast, but it did attract a number of former IWW members and foreign-born militants. Harry Bridges, an Australian-born sailor who became a longshoreman after coming to the United States, was repeatedly accused for his acknowledged Communist party membership.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
Militants published a newspaper, The Waterfront Worker, which focused on longshoremen's most pressing demands: more men on each gang, lighter loads and an independent union.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
While a number of the individuals in this group were Communist Party members, the group as a whole was independent of the party: although it criticized the International Seamen's Union (ISU) as weak and the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), which had its base on the East Coast, as corrupt, it did not embrace the MWIU, but called instead for creation of small knots of activists at each port to serve as the first step in a slow, careful movement to unionize the industry.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
Events soon made the MWIU wholly irrelevant. Just as the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act had led to a spontaneous significant rise in union membership among coal miners in 1933, thousands of longshoremen now joined the fledgling ILA locals that reappeared on the West Coast. The MWIU faded away as party activists followed the mass of West Coast longshoremen into the ILA.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
These newly emboldened workers first went after the "blue book" union, refusing to pay dues to it and tearing up their membership books. The militants who had published "The Waterfront Worker", now known as the "Albion Hall group" after their usual meeting place, continued organizing dock committees that soon began launching slowdowns and other types of job actions in order to win better working conditions.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
While the official leadership of the ILA remained in the hands of conservatives sent to the West Coast by President Joseph Ryan of the ILA, the Albion Hall group started in March, 1934 to press demands for a coastwide contract, a union-run hiring hall and an industry wide waterfront federation. When the conservative ILA leadership negotiated a weak "gentlemen's agreement" with the employers that had been brokered by the mediation board created by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bridges led the membership in rejecting it.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Background
The sticking point in the strike was recognition: the union demanded a closed shop, a coastwide contract and a union hiring hall. The employers offered to arbitrate the dispute, but insisted that the union agree to an open shop as a condition of any agreement to arbitrate. The longshoremen rejected the proposal to arbitrate.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, The Big Strike
The strike began on May 9, 1934, as longshoremen in every West Coast port walked out; sailors joined them several days later. The employers recruited strikebreakers, housing them on moored ships or in walled compounds and bringing them to and from work under police protection. Strikers attacked the stockade housing strikebreakers in San Pedro on May 15; police fired into the strikers, killing one and injuring many. The killing of Dick Parker created resentment up and down the coast. Daily similar smaller clashes broke out in San Francisco and Oakland, California, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Strikers also succeeded in slowing down or stopping the movement of goods by rail out of the ports.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, The Big Strike
The Roosevelt administration tried again to broker a deal to end the strike, but the membership twice rejected the agreements their leadership brought to them and continued the strike. The employers then decided to make a show of force to reopen the port in San Francisco. On Tuesday, July 3, fights broke out along the Embarcadero in San Francisco between police and strikers while a handful of trucks driven by young businessmen made it through the picket line.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, The Big Strike
Some Teamsters supported the strikers by refusing to handle "hot cargo" – goods which had been unloaded by strikebreakers – although the Teamsters' leadership was not as supportive. By the end of May, Dave Beck, president of the Seattle Teamsters, and Mike Casey, president of those in San Francisco, thought the maritime strike had lasted too long. They encouraged the strikers to take what they could get from the employers and threatened to use Teamsters as strikebreakers if the ILA did not return to work.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, The Big Strike
Shipping companies, government officials, some union leaders and the press began to raise fears that the strike was the result of communist agitation. This "red scare" also helped ignite a controversy about the New Deal Public Works of Art Project murals that were at the time being completed in San Francisco's Coit Tower (on Telegraph Hill, close to the location of the strike in San Francisco), leading to the postponing of the tower's July 7 opening, and later to the removal of communist symbols from two of the American Social Realism style murals.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, "Bloody Thursday"
After a quiet Fourth of July, the employers' organization, the Industrial Association, tried to open the port of San Francisco even further on Thursday, July 5. As spectators watched from Rincon Hill, the police shot tear gas canisters into the crowd, then followed with a charge by mounted police. Picketers threw the canisters and rocks back at the police, who charged again, sending the picketers into retreat. Each side then refortified and took stock.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, "Bloody Thursday"
The events took a violent turn that afternoon, as hostilities resumed outside of the ILA strike kitchen. Eyewitness accounts differ on the exact events that transpired next. According to some witnesses, a group of strikers first surrounded a police car and attempted to tip it over, prompting the police to fire shotguns in the air, and then revolvers at the crowd. Other eyewitness accounts claim that police officers started shooting in the direction of the strikers, provoking strikers to defend themselves. Policemen fired a shotgun into the crowd, striking three men in intersection of Steuart and Mission streets.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, "Bloody Thursday"
One of the men, Howard Sperry, a striking longshoreman, later died of his wounds. Another man, Charles Olsen, was also shot but later recovered from his wounds. A third man, Nick Bordoise – a Greek by birth (originally named Nick Counderakis) who was an out of work member of the cook's union volunteering at the ILA strike kitchen – was shot but managed to make his way around the corner onto Spear Street, where he was found several hours later. Like Sperry, he died at the hospital.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, "Bloody Thursday"
Strikers immediately cordoned off the area where the two picketers had been shot, laying flowers and wreaths around it. Police arrived to remove the flowers and drive off the picketers minutes later. Once the police left, the strikers returned, replaced the flowers and stood guard over the spot. Though Sperry and Bordoise had been shot several blocks apart, this spot became synonymous with the memory of the two slain men and "Bloody Thursday".


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, "Bloody Thursday"
As strikers carried wounded picketers into the ILA union hall police fired on the hall and lobbed tear gas canisters at nearby hotels. At this point someone reportedly called the union hall to ask "Are you willing to arbitrate now? ".


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, "Bloody Thursday"
Under orders from California Governor Frank Merriam, the California National Guard moved in that evening to patrol the waterfront. Similarly, federal soldiers of the United States Army stationed at the Presidio were placed on alert. The picketers pulled back, unwilling to take on armed soldiers in an uneven fight, and trucks and trains began moving without interference. Bridges asked the San Francisco Labor Council to meet that Saturday, July 7, to authorize a general strike. The Alameda County Central Labor Council in Oakland considered the same action. Teamsters in both San Francisco and Oakland voted to strike, over the objections of their leaders, on Sunday, July 8.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Funerals and general strike
The following day, several thousand strikers, families and sympathizers took part in a funeral procession down Market Street, stretching more than a mile and a half, for Nicholas Bordoise and Howard Sperry, the two persons killed on "Bloody Thursday". The police were wholly absent from the scene. The march made an enormous impact on San Franciscans, making a general strike, which had formerly been "the visionary dream of a small group of the most radical workers, became ... a practical and realizable objective." After dozens of Bay Area unions voted for a general strike over the next few days, the San Francisco Labor Council voted on July 14 to call a general strike. The Teamsters had already been out for two days by that point.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Funerals and general strike
San Francisco Mayor Angelo Rossi declared a state of emergency. Some federal officials, particularly Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, were more skeptical. Roosevelt later recalled that some persons were urging him to steer the USS Houston, which was carrying him to Hawaii, "into San Francisco Bay, all flags flying and guns double-shotted, and end the strike." Roosevelt rejected the suggestion.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Funerals and general strike
The general strike began on the 16th, involving some 150,000 workers. On the 17th the police arrested more than 300 "radicals, subversives, and communists" while systematically smashing furniture and equipment of organizations related to the strike; the same day, General Hugh S. Johnson as head of the National Recovery Administration spoke at UC Berkeley to denounce the general strike as "a menace to the government".


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Funerals and general strike
The strike lasted four days. Non -union truck drivers joined the first day; the movie theaters and night clubs closed down. While food deliveries continued with the permission of the strike committee, many small businesses closed, posting signs in support of the strikers. Reports that unions in Portland and Seattle would also begin general strikes picked up currency.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, End of the strike
The calling of a general strike had an unexpected result: it gave the General Strike Committee, whose makeup was far less militant than the longshoremen's strike committee, effective control over the maritime strike itself. When the Labor Council voted to terminate the general strike it also recommended that the unions accept arbitration of all disputed issues. When the National Longshore Board put the employer's proposal to arbitrate to a vote of striking longshoremen, it passed in every port except Everett, Washington.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, End of the strike
That, however, left the striking seamen in the lurch: the employers had refused to arbitrate with the ISU unless it first won elections on the fleets on strike. While Bridges, who had preached solidarity among all maritime workers and scorned arbitration, apologized to the seamen for the longshoremen's vote, the President of the ISU urged them to hold out and to burn their "fink books", the membership records of the company union to which they had been forced to pay dues.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, End of the strike
On July 17, 1934, the California National Guard blocked both ends of Jackson Street from Drumm to Front with machine gun mounted trucks to assist vigilante raids, protected by SFPD, on the headquarters of the Marine Workers' Industrial Union and the ILA soup kitchen at 84 Embarcadero. Moving on, the Workers' Ex-Servicemen's League's headquarters on Howard between Third and Fourth was raided, leading to 150 arrests and the complete destruction of the facilities. The employer's group, the Industrial Association, had agents riding with the police.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, End of the strike
Further raids were carried out at the Workers' Open Forum at 1223 Fillmore street and the Western Worker building opposite City Hall that contained a bookstore and the main offices of the Communist Party, which was thoroughly destroyed. Attacks were also perpetrated on the 121 Haight Street Workers' School and the Mission Workers' Neighborhood House at 741 Valencia Street. A police spokesperson suggested that "maybe the Communists staged the raids themselves for publicity".


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, End of the strike
General Hugh S. Johnson, then head of the National Recovery Administration, gave a speech urging responsible labor leaders to "run these subversive influences out from its ranks like rats". A lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union was kidnapped and beaten, while vigilantes seized thirteen radicals in San Jose and turned them over to the sheriff of an adjoining county, who transported them to another county. In Hayward in Alameda County someone erected a scaffold in front of the city hall with a noose and a sign stating "Reds beware". In Piedmont, an upscale community surrounded by Oakland on all sides, the chief of police prepared for a reported attack by strikers on the homes of wealthy ship-owners.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Aftermath
While some of the most powerful people in San Francisco considered the strike's denouement to be a victory for the employers, many longshoremen and seamen did not. Spontaneous strikes over grievances and workplace conditions broke out as strikers returned to their jobs, with longshoremen and teamsters supporting their demands. Employers conceded many of these battles, giving workers even more confidence in demanding that employers lighten unbearably heavy loads.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Aftermath
Longshoremen also began dictating other terms, fining members who worked more than the ceiling of 120 hours per month, filing charges against a gang boss for "slandering colored brothers" and forcing employers to fire strikebreakers. Other unions went further: the Marine Firemen proposed to punish any member who bought a Hearst newspaper.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Aftermath
The arbitration award issued on October 12, 1934, cemented the ILA's power. While the award put the operation of the hall in the hands of a committee of union and employer representatives, the union was given the power to select the dispatcher. Since longshoremen were prepared to walk out if an employer did not hire a worker dispatched from the hall, the ILA soon controlled hiring on the docks. The employers complained that the union wanted to "sovietize" the waterfront. Workers complained that the employers were exploiting them for cheap labor and forcing them to work in unsafe conditions without reasonable safety measures.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Aftermath
The union soon utilized the "quickie strike" tactic to force many concessions from employers such as safer working conditions and better pay. Similarly, even though an arbitrator held that the 1935 Agreement prohibited sympathy strikes, the union's members nonetheless refused to cross other unions' picket lines. Longshoremen also refused to handle "hot cargo" destined for non-union warehouses that the union was attempting to organize. The ISU acquired similar authority over hiring, despite the philosophical objection of the union's own officers to hiring halls. The ISU used this power to drive strikebreakers out of the industry.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Aftermath
The rift between the seamen's and longshoremen's unions deepened and became more complex in the succeeding years, as Bridges continually fought with the Sailors' Union of the Pacific over labor and political issues. The West Coast district of the ILA broke off from the International in 1937 to form the International Longshoremen's Union, later renamed the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union after the union's "march inland" to organize warehouse workers, then renamed the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in recognition of the number of women members.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Aftermath
The arbitration award also gave longshoremen a raise to ninety-five cents ($18.16 in 2019 dollars) an hour for straight time work, just shy of the dollar an hour it demanded during the strike. It was also awarded a contract that applied up and down the West Coast. The strike also prompted union organizer Carmen Lucia to organize the Department Store Workers Union and the Retail Clerks Association in San Francisco.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Legacy
The ILWU continues to recognize "Bloody Thursday" by shutting down all West Coast ports every July 5 and honoring Nick Bordoise, Howard Sperry and all of the other workers killed by police during the strike. The ILWU has frequently stopped work for political protests against, among other things, Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, fascist intervention in Spain's civil war, South Africa's system of apartheid and the Iraq War.


1934 West Coast waterfront strike, Legacy
Sam Kagel, the last surviving member of the original union steering committee, died on May 21, 2007 at the age of 98.


1934 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1934 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football team that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In its first season under head coach Charles Tallman, the team compiled a 6–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 117 to 113. The team played its home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. Herbert Stewart and John Vargo were the team captains.


1934 Western Maryland Green Terror football team
The 1934 Western Maryland Green Terror football team was an American football team that represented Western Maryland College (now known as McDaniel College) as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In its ninth season under head coach Dick Harlow, the team compiled an undefeated 8–0–1 record and shut out eight of its nine opponents. Left halfback and team captain Bill Shepherd led the country with 133 points scored and went on to play six years in the NFL. Harlow was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.


1934 Western Reserve Red Cats football team
The 1934 Western Reserve Red Cats football team represented Western Reserve University, now known as Case Western Reserve University, during the 1934 college football season. The team was led by Sam Willaman, in his first and only hear as head coach. His staff included assistant coach Bill Edwards.


1934 Western State Hilltoppers football team
The 1934 Western State Hilltoppers football team represented Western State Normal School (later renamed Western Michigan University) as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In their sixth season under head coach Mike Gary, the Hilltoppers compiled a 7–1 record and outscored their opponents, 104 to 52. Halfback John Miller was the team captain.


1934 Weston-super-Mare by-election
The Weston-super-Mare by-election of 1934 was held on 26 June 1934. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, John Erskine to become Governor of Madras Presidency. It was won by the Conservative candidate Ian Orr-Ewing.


1934 Whittier Poets football team
The 1934 Whittier Poets football team was an American football team that represented Whittier College in the Southern California Conference (SCC) during the 1934 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Wallace Newman, the team compiled a 7–2–1 record (5–0 against conference opponents), won the SCC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 204 to 81. Its only two losses were on opening day against defending national champion USC and three weeks later against Arizona. The team played its home games at Hadley Field in Whittier, California.


1934 Wightman Cup
The 1934 Wightman Cup was the 12th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London in England in the United Kingdom.


1934 William & Mary Indians football team
The 1934 William & Mary Indians football team represented William & Mary during the 1934 college football season.


1934 William & Mary Norfolk Division Braves football team
The 1934 William & Mary Norfolk Division Braves football team represented the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, now referred to as Old Dominion University, during the 1934 college football season. They finished with a 3–5–1 record and were outscored by their opponents 64–128.


1934 Wimbledon Championships
The 1934 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 25 June until Saturday 7 July 1934. It was the 54th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1934. Fred Perry and Dorothy Round won the singles titles.


1934 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
George Lott /  Lester Stoefen defeated  Jean Borotra /  Jacques Brugnon, 6–2, 6–3, 6–4


1934 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles
Simonne Mathieu /  Elizabeth Ryan defeated  Dorothy Andrus /  Sylvie Henrotin, 6–3, 6–3


1934 Wimbledon Championships, Finals, Mixed Doubles
Ryuki Miki /  Dorothy Round defeated  Bunny Austin /  Dorothy Shepherd Barron, 3–6, 6–4, 6–0


1934 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
George Lott and Lester Stoefen defeated the defending champions Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon in the final, 6–2, 6–3, 6–4 to win the Gentlemen' Doubles tennis title at the 1934 Wimbledon Championship.


1934 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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1934 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Fred Perry defeated the defending champion Jack Crawford in the final, 6–3, 6–0, 7–5 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1934 Wimbledon Championships.


1934 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
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1934 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Gottfried von Cramm and Hilde Sperling were the defending champions, but lost in the third round to Ian Collins and Gwyn Corbett, Lady Rowallan.


1934 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Ryuki Miki and Dorothy Round defeated Bunny Austin and Dorothy Shepherd-Barron in the final, 7–5, 8–6 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1934 Wimbledon Championships.


1934 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
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1934 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Simonne Mathieu and Elizabeth Ryan successfully defended their title, defeating Dorothy Andrus and Sylvie Henrotin in the final, 6–3, 6–3 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1934 Wimbledon Championships.


1934 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
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1934 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Dorothy Round defeated Helen Jacobs in the final, 6–2, 5–7, 6–3 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1934 Wimbledon Championships.


1934 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Helen Moody was the defending champion, but did not compete.


1934 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
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1934 Winter 100
The 1934 Winter 100  was a motor race held at the Phillip Island circuit, near Cowes on Phillip Island, in Victoria, Australia on 4 June 1934. The race, which was organised by the Light Car Club of Australia, was staged over 15 laps, a total distance of 100 miles. It was contested on a handicap basis with the first car scheduled to start 17 minutes 30 seconds before the Scratch car.


1934 Winter 100
The race was won by Les Jennings driving an MG Magna from a handicap of 10 minutes 45 seconds.


1934 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The 1934 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1934 Big Ten Conference football season. The team compiled a 4–4 record (2–3 against conference opponents) and finished in a tie for fifth place in the Big Ten Conference. Clarence Spears was in his third year as Wisconsin's head coach.


1934 Wisconsin Badgers football team
Guard Milt Kummer was selected as the team's most valuable player. John Bender was the team captain. End Stan Haukedahl and guard Mario Pacetti were selected by the United Press as second-team players on the 1934 All-Big Ten Conference football team. Lynn Jordan returned a kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown against Michigan on November 10, 1934.


1934 Wisconsin Badgers football team
The team played its home games at Camp Randall Stadium, which had a capacity of 32,700. During the 1934 season, the average attendance at home games was 20,666.


1934 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The 1934 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1934.


1934 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
Incumbent Democratic Governor Albert G. Schmedeman was defeated by Progressive nominee Philip La Follette.


1934 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, General election, Candidates
The Communist, Prohibition and Socialist Labor parties were forced to run candidates as independents, as they were not recognized as legal parties due to failing to poll the required number of votes in past primary elections.


1934 Wisła Kraków season
The 1934 season was Wisła Kraków's 26th year as a club.


1934 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1934 Ladies Open Championships was held at the Queen's Club, West Kensington in London from 5–11 February 1934. Susan Noel won her third consecutive title defeating Margot Lumb in the final. The Championship attracted the top players from the United States for the first time.


1934 Women's Western Open
The 1934 Women's Western Open was a golf competition held at Portland Golf Club, the 5th edition of the event. Marian McDougall won the championship in match play competition by defeating Mrs. Guy Riegel in the final match, 9 and 7.


1934 Women's World Games
The 1934 Women's World Games (French: 4è Jeux Féminins Mondiaux) were the fourth edition of the international games for women. The tournament was held between 9–11 August at the White City Stadium in London, United Kingdom. These were the last athletic games exclusively for women, a planned fifth tournament for 1938 in Vienna was cancelled as women were allowed to compete in all regular athletics events at the Olympic Games and other international events. The first major tournament were the 1938 European Athletics Championships even though the tournament was split up into two separate events. The 3rd European Athletics Championships in 1946 were the first combined championships for both men and women.


1934 Women's World Games, Events
The games were organized by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale under Alice Milliat as a response to the IOC decision to include only a few women's events (100 metres, 800 metres, 4 × 100 m relay, high jump and discus) in the 1928 Olympic Games.


1934 Women's World Games, Events
The games were attended by 200 participants from 19 nations (including now dissolved nations): Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Palestine, Poland, Rhodesia, South Africa, Sweden, United States and Yugoslavia.


1934 Women's World Games, Events
The athletes competed in 12 events: running (60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres, 800 metres, 4 x 100 metres relay and hurdling 80 metres), high jump, long jump, discus throw, javelin, shot put and pentathlon (100 metres, high jump, long jump, javelin and shot put). The tournament also held exhibition events in basketball, handball and football.


1934 Women's World Games, Events
The tournament was opened with an olympic style ceremony. The Canadian flag bearer was Lillian Palmer as captain of the Canadian team. The games attended an audience of 15,000 spectators and several world records were set.


1934 Women's World Games, Events
The games were the first to include a women's pentathlon.


1934 Women's World Games, Events
A special commemorative medal was issued for the participants and the games were closed with a formal banquet.


1934 World Archery Championships
The 1934 World Archery Championships was the 4th edition of the World Archery Championships. The event was held in Båstad, Sweden in August 1934 and was organised by World Archery Federation (FITA).


1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 10th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Gymnastics Federation, on June 1–2, 1934.


1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
It was the first World Championships with a women's segment to the competition.


1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Women
This first ever women's competition at a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships consisted of a competitive field including five countries and 40 individual competitors.


1934 World Fencing Championships
The 1934 World Fencing Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland.


1934 World Figure Skating Championships
The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.


1934 World Figure Skating Championships
Men's competitions took place from February 16 to 18 in Stockholm, Sweden. Ladies' competitions took place February from 10 to 11 in Oslo, Norway. Pairs' competition took place on February 23 in Helsinki, Finland.


1934 World Series
The 1934 World Series matched the St. Louis Cardinals against the Detroit Tigers, with the Cardinals' "Gashouse Gang" winning in seven games for their third championship in eight years.


1934 World Series
The Cardinals and Tigers split the first two games in Detroit, and Detroit took two of the next three in St. Louis. But St. Louis won the next two in Detroit, including an 11–0 embarrassment in Game 7 to win the Series. The stars for the Cardinals were Joe ("Ducky") Medwick, who hit .379, a Series-high five RBI and one of St. Louis' two home runs, and the meteoric ("Me 'n' Paul") Dean brothers, Dizzy and Paul (or "Daffy") Dean, who won two games apiece with 28 strikeouts and a minuscule 1.43 earned run average. 1934 was the last World Series in which both teams were led by player-managers.


1934 World Series
The two teams have met twice in the World Series since 1934; in 1968 (Tigers won in seven) and 2006 (Cardinals won in five). Tiger pitcher Denny McLain, winner of Game 6 in 1968 (coasting home on the Tigers' record-tying ten-run second inning rally on the road), had gone 31–6 during the season, upstaging "Diz" with his mere 30–7 that year, who at 57 went onto the Tiger Stadium field in a big cowboy hat to be photographed with McLain moments after the walk-off hit that had given the latter his thirtieth win of the season. As of 2018, they are the last two 30-game winners in the major leagues.


1934 World Series
The Cardinals, led by the Dean brothers, used only six other pitchers in amassing a team earned-run average of 2.34 for their 1934 Series victory,


1934 World Series
Pete Fox played for the losing team, yet became the only player in Series history, as of 2018, to hit six doubles in a World Series.


1934 World Series
For his top-of-the-sixth triple in Game 7, Joe Medwick slid hard into Tiger third baseman Marv Owen. They tangled briefly, and when Medwick went back to his position in left field for the bottom of the inning enraged Tiger fans, knowing the game was all but lost (the score was 9–0 by then), vented their frustrations on him, pelting him with fruit, vegetables, bottles and cushions among other things. It was a feat for him to make the catch of a fly ball instead of the orange thrown close to it. Commissioner Landis ordered Medwick out of the game, ending the ruckus. Newsreel footage shows Medwick slamming his glove against the dugout bench in disgust. It was the only time a Commissioner has ejected a player from any major league game, as of 2018. ()


1934 World Series
Dizzy Dean nearly took himself out of the Series on a play in Game 4. In the fourth inning, he pinch-ran and broke up a double play the hard way; i.e., by taking the errant relay throw to first flush on the noggin. The great Dean lay unconscious on the field. (He was later to protest, "Hell, it was only a glancing blow.") He was rushed to a hospital for observation, where he was given a clean bill of health. Legend has it that at least one newspaper the next day featured the headline, "X-ray of Dean's head shows nothing." Be that as it may, ol' Diz recovered rapidly enough to start Game 5 (a 3–1 loss to Tiger curveballer Tommy Bridges) the very next day.


1934 World Series
According to Charles Einstein's The Fireside Book of Baseball, in the midst of the Cardinals' Game 7 rout, player-manager Frankie Frisch, the "Fordham Flash", called time and walked out to the mound from second base to warn Diz, "If you don't stop clowning around, I'll take you out of the game." Dizzy said, "No you won't." Frisch thought about this a moment, then retreated to second.


1934 World Series, Summary
NL St. Louis Cardinals (4) vs. AL Detroit Tigers (3)


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The series opener in Detroit pitted the Cardinals' 30-game winner, Dizzy Dean, against the Tigers' "General" Crowder. The subpar Tiger defense behind the General let him down with five errors and three unearned runs.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
In the top of the second, the Gashouse Gang loaded the bases with a single and two errors; a single by Jack Rothrock then brought home both Ernie Orsatti and Dean to make it 2–0. In the third inning, St. Louis tacked on another run due to more shoddy Detroit fielding. Medwick singled and was forced out at second by Ripper Collins, but a throwing error by Tiger shortstop Billy Rogell allowed Collins to move to second and then score on another error by Detroit's star first baseman, Hank Greenberg. In the bottom of the third, Charlie Gehringer got the Tigers on the board with a single that drove in Jo-Jo White, but in the St. Louis fifth Medwick tattooed a home run off Crowder for a 4–1 Cardinal lead.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Gang then exploded for a four-run sixth off Firpo Marberry (who had relieved Crowder) and Elon Hogsett, as Pepper Martin and Medwick each cracked RBI singles and Bill DeLancey lashed a two-run double to left. Though Detroit put up single runs in the sixth and eighth (via a Goose Goslin single that scored Greenberg and a home run by Greenberg), they could get no closer, as Dean struck out Gee Walker to give St. Louis an 8–3 win and a 1–0 lead in the series.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The second game of the Series was much closer than the first, pitting the Cardinals' Bill Hallahan against the Tigers' Schoolboy Rowe.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
In the top of the second, St. Louis drew first blood on DeLancey's single and Orsatti's triple. They added another run in the third as a Medwick single brought in Martin, but the Tigers came back and edged them 3–2 in 12 innings.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The Tigers left 13 men on base as Pepper Martin's double, triple and two runs scored enabled the Cardinals to win, 4-1.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
The Tigers evened the series, winning 10-4, with five runs in the eighth. Hank Greenberg had four hits and three RBI and Billy Rogell had four RBI.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
This game was the first time that the song, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", was played during the World Series, after being played at a high school game earlier that year in Los Angeles.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Tommy Bridges won after just one day of rest. Charlie Gehringer's home run in the sixth was the game-winning hit.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Paul Dean won his second game of the series and helped his own cause with a game-winning single in the seventh inning.


1934 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The Cardinals easily won Game 7, 11–0, behind Dizzy Dean. Ducky Medwick was taken out of the game for own safety after sliding hard into third baseman Marv Owen and being pelted by the crowd with bottles and fruit when he took the field in the sixth inning.


1934 World Series, Composite line score
1934 World Series (4–3): St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.) over Detroit Tigers (A.L.)


1934 World Series, Brothers
Other brothers who appeared in the same World Series, either as teammates or opponents, before the Deans were:


1934 World Snooker Championship
The 1934 World Snooker Championship, known at the time as the Professional Championship of Snooker, was a snooker tournament held partly at the Lounge Hall in Nottingham and then at the Central Hall in Kettering, from 2 to 6 April 1934. Joe Davis won the title for the eighth time by defeating Tom Newman, the only other entrant, by 25 frames to 22. At one stage Newman led 14–13, but Davis then pulled ahead to lead 24–18 and, and although Newman won the next four frames, Davis took the 47th frame to secure the title. Davis compiled a break of 70 in the third frame.


1934 World Snooker Championship, Background
The World Snooker Championship is a professional tournament and the official world championship of the game of snooker. The sport was developed in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India. Professional English billiards player and billiard hall manager Joe Davis noticed the increasing popularity of snooker compared to billiards in the 1920s, and with Birmingham-based billiards equipment manager Bill Camkin, persuaded the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC) to recognise an official professional snooker championship in the 1926–27 season.


1934 World Snooker Championship, Background
In 1927, the final of the first professional snooker championship was held at Camkin's Hall; Davis won the tournament by beating Tom Dennis in the final. The annual competition was not titled the World Championship until 1935, but the 1927 tournament is now referred to as the first World Snooker Championship. Davis had also won the title every year from 1928 to 1933.


1934 World Snooker Championship, Background
For the 1934 championship, it was announced that the preliminary heats and semi-finals were to be best of 25 frames, played over three days, with the final contested over 49 frames across six days. The entry fee was set at five guineas per player (equivalent to £375 in 2019), with a five guineas sidestake required for each match.


1934 World Snooker Championship, Background
Entry fees would be used to provide prize money for the finalists, with 60 per cent going to the champion, and gate receipts for each match would be divided equally, after expenses (including 5 per cent of the gross receipts for the BACC), between the two players concerned. Entries were required by 19 February.


1934 World Snooker Championship, Summary
Only two players entered, Joe Davis and Tom Newman, and thus just the final was contested. The match was scheduled from 2 April to 6 April and was over 49 frames. There were ten frames played each day with five frames in the afternoon and five in the evening (four on the final day). The first three days were held at The Lounge, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham with the final two days being played at the Central Hall, Kettering. The match was promoted by Howarth Nuttall, and refereed by Willie Leigh.


1934 World Snooker Championship, Summary
After the first day the score was level at five frames each. Davis made a break of 70 in the third frame but Newman ended the session 3–2 ahead. Newman won the next two frames to lead 5–2 but Davis took the last three to level the scores, winning the eighth frame 112–0. On the second day Newman won the afternoon session 3–2 and took the first frame in the evening. Davis then won the last four frames to lead 11–9. For the third day in a row Newman won the afternoon session 3–2 and then took the first two frames in the evening to take the lead 14–13. Davis again finished well, winning the final three frames to lead 16–14 overnight.


1934 World Snooker Championship, Summary
On the fourth day Davis won both sessions 3–2 to increase his lead to 22–18. On the final day he took the first two frames to lead 24–18, needing just one frame for victory. Newman, however, took the last three frames in the afternoon and the first in the evening before Davis won the 47th frame 72–55 to secure victory at 25–22. After dead frames, the score was 26–23 to Davis.


1934 World Snooker Championship, Summary
There was a good audience attendance for each session, including a sell-out crowd for the fourth session. The championship trophy was presented by H. Hodge, chairman of Kettering Urban Council. In speeches after the presentation, Davis commended Newman for his sportsmanship, and Newman acclaimed Davis as the best snooker player in the world.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships
The 8th World Table Tennis Championships were held in Paris from December 2 to 10, 1933. The Championships were held in December 1933 but are officially listed as the 1934 Championships.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
The 1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles was the eighth edition of the men's doubles championship. The Championships were held in December 1933 but are officially listed as the 1934 Championships. Miklós Szabados and Viktor Barna defeated Sándor Glancz and Tibor Házi in the final by three sets to nil. Barna once again playing with Szabados, won his sixth consecutive doubles title.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
The 1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles was the eighth edition of the men's singles championship. The Championships were held in December 1933 but are officially listed as the 1934 Championships.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Viktor Barna defeated Laszlo Bellak in the final, winning three sets to two to secure a third consecutive title.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team
The 1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the eighth edition of the men's team championship. The Championships were held in December 1933 but are officially listed as the 1934 Championships.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Team
Hungary dominated the tournament once again and won the gold medal with a perfect 11–0 match record. Austria and Czechoslovakia tied for silver and therefore no bronze was awarded.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
The 1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles was the eighth edition of the mixed doubles championship. The Championships were held in December 1933 but are officially listed as the 1934 Championships.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles
Miklós Szabados and Mária Mednyánszky defeated Viktor Barna and Anna Sipos in the final by three sets to one.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
The 1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles was the seventh edition of the women's doubles championship. The Championships were held in December 1933 but are officially listed as the 1934 Championships. Mária Mednyánszky and Anna Sipos defeated Anita Felguth-Denker and Astrid Krebsbach in the final by three sets to one to secure a fifth consecutive title.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
The 1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Singles was the eighth edition of the women's singles championship. The Championships were held in December 1933 but are officially listed as the 1934 Championships. Marie Kettnerová defeated Astrid Krebsbach in the final by three sets to one, to win the title.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team
The 1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Corbillon Cup (Women's Team) was the first edition of the women's team championship.


1934 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Team
The cup was named the Corbillon Cup because it was named after Marcel Corbillon (the President of the French Table Tennis Association (FFTT) from 1933 to 1935) who donated the trophy for the winning team. Germany won the gold medal with a 5-0 record in the round robin group. Hungary won the silver medal and Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal.


1934 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1934 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1934 college football season. In its second season under head coach Willard Witte, the team compiled a 3–5 record (2–4 against RMC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 109 to 78.


1934 Wyoming gubernatorial election
The 1934 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1934. Incumbent Democratic Governor Leslie A. Miller ran for re-election to his second term, and his first full term, following his initial election in the 1932 special election. Miller faced Republican Alonzo M. Clark, his predecessor as Governor, in the general election. Despite the closeness of Miller's first election, he took advantage of the nationwide Democratic landslide and easily defeated Clark.


1934 Wyoming state elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 6, 1934. All of the state's executive officers—the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction—were up for election. In the 1932 gubernatorial special election, the Democratic candidate, Leslie A. Miller, won and ran for re-election for a full term in 1934. The Democratic Party also won elections for Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, flipping those offices from the Republican Party.


1934 Wyoming state elections, Governor
Incumbent Democratic Governor Leslie A. Miller, first elected in the 1932 special election, ran for re-election to his second term and his first full term. He defeated Republican Secretary of State Alonzo M. Clark, who had acted as governor during the vacancy.


1934 Wyoming state elections, Secretary of State
Incumbent Secretary of State Alonzo M. Clark opted to run for Governor rather than seek re-election, creating an open seat. State Representative Lester C. Hunt won the Democratic primary over fellow State Representative Pat Flannery and faced State Senator Clifford A. Miller in the general election. Hunt defeated Miller by a wide margin, flipping control of the office to the Democratic Party for the first time since 1914.


1934 Wyoming state elections, Auditor
Incumbent Republican Auditor Roscoe Alcorn ran for re-election to a third term, and a second full term following his appointment in 1929. He once again faced accountant C. H. Reimerth in the Republican primary, whom he easily defeated. In the general election, he faced William M. Jack, the Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives. Aided by the Democratic landslide in Wyoming, Jack easily defeated Alcorn.


1934 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer
Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Harry Weston was unable to seek re-election due to term limits, and Weston opted to retire rather than seek another office. Casper City Treasurer Charles A. Cullen won the Republican primary and faced Democratic nominee J. Kirk Baldwin, the former state airport supervisor, and Communist Party nominee Don Wirth in the general election. Baldwin defeated Cullen in a landslide.


1934 Wyoming state elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Incumbent Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Katharine A. Morton ran for re-election to a fifth term. She faced several challengers in the Republican primary and won renomination with a plurality. In the general election, she faced Jack R. Gage, who won the Democratic primary with less than 20% of the vote. Gage was able to take advantage of the Democratic landslide in Wyoming and defeated Morton with more than 60% of the vote, a significant reversal from Morton's past electoral successes.


1934 Xavier Musketeers football team
The 1934 Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented Xavier University in the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1934 college football season. The team compiled a 6–2–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 220 to 55. The team played its home games at Corcoran Field in Cincinnati.


1934 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1934 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1934 college football season. The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Ducky Pond, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished the season with a 5–3 record.


1934 Yukon general election
The 1934 Yukon general election was held on 17 September 1934 to elect the three members of the Yukon Territorial Council for Yukon, Canada. The council was non-partisan and had merely an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner.


1934 college football season
The 1934 college football season was the 66th season of college football in the United States. Two New Year's Day bowl games were initiated to rival the Rose Bowl Game. On February 15, Warren V. Miller and Joseph M. Cousins organized the New Orleans Mid-Winter Sports Association and by October, the group had enough funds to sponsor the Sugar Bowl. Meanwhile, W. Keith Phillips and the Greater Miami Athletic Club worked in November at a January 1 game for Florida, and the Orange Bowl was created.


1934 college football season
Once again, a Big Ten team was selected by Professor Dickinson (of the University of Illinois) as the national champion, with the undefeated Minnesota Golden Gophers being accorded the honor. The conference, however, still had a bar against its members playing in the postseason, so Minnesota did not play in any of the bowl games. The undefeated and eventual Rose Bowl champion Alabama Crimson Tide was selected national champions by Dunkel, Williamson and Football Thesaurus.


1934 college football season, September
September 22 Stanford opened with a 48–0 win over San Jose State, while in Houston, Rice opened with a 12–0 win over Loyola College of New Orleans.


1934 college football season, September
September 29 Minnesota beat North Dakota State 56–12 and Illinois beat Bradley 40–7. Alabama beat Samford 24–0, and Tulane beat UT-Chattanooga 41–0. Rice and LSU played to a 9–9 tie while Stanford and Santa Clara tied 7–7. Navy defeated William & Mary 20–7 while Pittsburgh beat Washington & Jefferson 26–6.


1934 college football season, October
October 3 On a Wednesday game Minnesota beat Nebraska 20–0. Illinois beat Washington University (at St. Louis) 12–7, and on Friday, Alabama beat Sewanee 35–6 in Montgomery.


1934 college football season, October
October 6Navy beat Virginia 21–6 in a game in Washington, DC. In New Orleans, Tulane beat Auburn 13–0. At Portland, Stanford beat Oregon State 17–0. Columbia opened its season in New York with a 12–6 win over Yale, and Colgate beat St. Lawrence 32–0. Pittsburgh won at West Virginia 27–6. Ohio State beat Indiana 33–0. Rice won at Purdue 14–0.


1934 college football season, October
October 13 Illinois beat Ohio State 14–13. Stanford beat visiting Northwestern 20–0. Pittsburgh defeated visiting USC 20–6. Alabama defeated Mississippi State 41–0, Rice defeated SMU 9–0, and Tulane won at Florida 28–12. Navy defeated Maryland 16–13, Colgate beat St. Bonaventure 62–0 and Columbia beat VMI 29–6.


1934 college football season, October
October 20 Minnesota won at Pittsburgh, 13–7. Ohio State defeated visiting Colgate 10–7. Navy beat Columbia 18–7. Alabama and Tennessee, both 3–0–0, met in Birmingham, with Bama winning 13–6. Tulane edged visiting Georgia 7–6. In Omaha, Rice beat Creighton University 47–13. Stanford beat USF at San Francisco, 3–0.


1934 college football season, October
October 27 Alabama beat Georgia 26–6 at Birmingham, while in New Orleans, Tulane beat Georgia Tech 20–12. Rice stayed unbeaten with a 20–9 win over visiting Texas. Minnesota won at Iowa 48–12, . Illinois won at Michigan 7–6, and Ohio State won at Northwestern 28–6. Stanford registered its fourth shutout, a 16–0 win over USC. Navy won at Penn, Colgate won at Holy Cross 20–7 and Columbia beat visiting Penn State 14–7. Pittsburgh beat host school Westminster College of Pennsylvania, 30–0


1934 college football season, November
November 3 Pitt (4–1–0) and Notre Dame (3–0–0) met in Pittsburgh, with the Panthers winning 19–0. Minnesota beat Michigan 34–0. In Cleveland, Ohio State won at Western Reserve 76–0. Illinois beat Army 7–0. Alabama won at Kentucky 34–14. Rice beat Texas A&I 27–0. Tulane beat Ole Miss 15–0. In Los Angeles, Stanford beat UCLA 27–0. Columbia defeated Cornell 14–0 and Navy beat Washington & Lee 26–0.


1934 college football season, November
November 10 At Yankee Stadium, Tulane (6–0–0) faced Colgate (3–1–0), with the Red Raiders handing the Green Wave their first loss, 20–6. In a meeting of unbeaten teams, Stanford (7–0–1) hosted Washington (4–0–0) and had a sixth straight shutout 24–0. Over in Cleveland, Navy beat Notre Dame 10–6. Pittsburgh won at Nebraska 25–6. Minnesota beat Indiana 30–0, Illinois won at Northwestern 14–3, and Ohio State beat Chicago 33–0Alabama beat Clemson 40–0 and Rice won at Arkansas 7–0. Columbia beat Brown 39–0


1934 college football season, November
November 17 Navy (7–0–0) hosted Pittsburgh (6–1–0) and lost 31–7


1934 college football season, November
Minnesota beat Chicago 35–7 and Ohio State defeated Michigan 34–0. Previously unbeaten (6–0–0) Illinois was upset at Madison when it faced a (3–3–0) Wisconsin Badgers team, falling 7–3. Alabama defeated Georgia Tech 40–0, while Tulane won at Kentucky 20–7. Stanford beat the Olympic Club team 40–0, and had a record of 192–7 against its opponents to that time. Colgate won at Syracuse 13–2 and Columbia edged Penn 13–12. Rice beat Texas A&M 25–6. Yale's 11 "Iron Men" (they played the entire game with no substitutions) upset Princeton 7–0 at Princeton.


1934 college football season, November
November 24Minnesota won at Wisconsin 34–0, Ohio State beat Iowa 40–7, and Illinois won at Chicago 7–1. Stanford clinched a trip to the Rose Bowl with a 9–7 win at California. Colgate beat Rutgers 14–0. Tulane beat Sewanee 32–0. Columbia (7–1–0) beat Syracuse (6–1–0) in a Sunday game 12–0. In Houston, previously unbeaten (8–0–1) Rice hosted (6–3–0) Texas Christian (TCU) and was upset, 7–2.


1934 college football season, November
On Thanksgiving Day, November 29, Alabama beat Vanderbilt in Birmingham, 34–0, and was invited soon after to meet Stanford at the Rose Bowl. Pittsburgh beat crosstown rival Carnegie Tech, 20–0, and Kansas State beat Nebraska 19–7 to clinch the Big Six Conference championship.