Judge Irwin Hazen observes King Levinsky fighting, Los Angeles, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Judge Irwin Hazen observes King Levinsky fighting, Los Angeles, 1934

Date Created

June 1934

Date

1934-06

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

King Levinsky has returned to Los Angeles after failing to fight Art Lasky in Chicago due to a nervous breakdown that left him hospitalized for several days. He appears to be in good health, preparing for the rescheduled fight with Lasky on June 12th.
Judge Hazen rests his chin in one hand holding his pipe and rests that arm on top of the hand gripping his cane.
Photograph appears with the article, "King Levinsky Opens Training For Art Lasky," Los Angeles Times, 02 June 1934: A7.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: After an absence of three weeks, King Levinsky returned to the fistic limelight yesterday and here's positive proof that he's actually getting ready to fight Art Lasky June 12. The scenes below show the Kingfish at various stages of his training routine. On the far left Jerry (The Greek) Luvadis, trainer and pal of Jack Dempsey, is padding the King's heavy fists before sending him into action. Second from the left is a shot of the roly-poly heavyweight taking his daily dozen. In the center the board of strategy whispers encouragingly to the King as he relaxes after stepping a fast round with Tony Sousa. Crowded around the big fighter are Sam Levinsky (left,) Harold Steinman and Jerry. Second from the right is shown Leaping Lena saying: "King, you're colossal." On, the extreme right is apparently merely an interested spectator watching the King work out, but actually its Judge Hazen, who came all the way from Chicago with Levinsky entourage and who advises Lena and the King as to their every move outside of the gym.
Text from negative sleeve: LEVINSKY, KINGFISH BOXER

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hazen, Irwin, 1869-1948

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Boxing--California--Los Angeles
Judges--California--Los Angeles
Sports spectators--California--Los Angeles