What was the first sport televised in the U.S.?

Question

A sport practised in parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, North America and for a short time in parts of England, involved trying to decapitate what?

Answer 1

College baseball game
On 17 May 1939, the United States' first televised sporting event, a college baseball game between the Columbia Lions and Princeton Tigers, was broadcast by NBC from Columbia's Baker Field. (The world's first live televised sporting event had been the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.)