"Butch" Rogers and "Champ" Clark boxing at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935

Title: "Butch" Rogers and "Champ" Clark boxing at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1935
Date Created: October 15, 1935
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description: Built in 1924 and located at 1801 S. Grand Ave., the Grand Olympic Auditorium became the Glory Church of Jesus Christ in 2005.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Army Boxer Stops Rival" [Los Angeles Times, October 15, 1935]
View of boxing ring corner where boxer Alfred "Butch" Rogers is on floor, while opponent Kent "Champ" Clark is held back by referee or coach. In foreground and background, spectators and photographers surrounding the ring look on. The heavyweight match was conducted at the former Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Caption: Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 2542-- Oct 23 1935, "Butch" Rogers, "Champ" Clark, Bout G Olympic, 10/15/35
Handwritten on negative: 10/15/35, Butch Rogers, Champ Clark, Bout G

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: People
Sports
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Boxing--California--Los Angeles
Names: Grand Olympic Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Clark, Kent
Rogers, Alfred
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.03411
Latitude: -118.268037
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_9002
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002dh08x
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights Holder: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.