Sports history for June 27

Friday, June 27, 1997 | 11:16 a.m.

1903 - Willie Anderson captures the U.S. Open with a two-stroke victory over David Brown in a playoff.

1914 - Jack Johnson wins a 20-round referee's decision over Frank Moran at the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris to retain boxing's world heavyweight title.

1950 - Chandler Harper wins the PGA Championship by beating Henry Williams, Jr., 4 and 3 in the final round.

1959 - Mickey Wright beats Louise Suggs by two strokes for her second straight U.S. Women's Open title.

1971 - JoAnne Carner wins the U.S. Women's Open with a seven-stroke victory over Kathy Whitworth.

1992 - Top-seeded Jim Courier, the Australian and French Open champion, is beaten 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 by qualifier Andrei Olhovskiy of Russia. It's the first time in Wimbledon history that a qualifier beats the top seed.

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