Boxers Tiger Flowers and Eddie Huffman in a match at Ascot Park, Gardena, 1926

Title: Boxers Tiger Flowers and Eddie Huffman in a match at Ascot Park, Gardena, 1926
Date Created: July 24, 1926
Date: 1926-07-24
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Tiger Flowers was the first African American middleweight boxing champion. This match took place in Ascot park near Gardena, Calif., which became a raceway in 1957 and later closed in 1990.
Boxers Tiger Flowers (L) and Eddie Huffman in a match at Ascot Park with a referee and spectators in the background.
Photograph published in article: "Tiger Flowers Whips Eddie Huffman at Ascot", Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1926: A1.
Caption: Text on negative sleeve: Hoffman[sic] vs. Flowers boxers

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_5098
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