Palmer and Waldrop (U.S.S. New York) and Spies (U.S.S. California) run the 220-yard race during the Pacific Fleet's track championship meet, Long Beach, 1922

Title: Palmer and Waldrop (U.S.S. New York) and Spies (U.S.S. California) run the 220-yard race during the Pacific Fleet's track championship meet, Long Beach, 1922
Date Created: [May 12, 1922]
Date: 1922-05-12
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: This photograph appears with the article, "CALIFORNIA'S ATHLETES CAPTURE THE FLEET TRACK AND FIELD TITLE: FLEET AIR FORCE IS SECOND IN CLOSE MEET; Native Sons Roll Up 38 Points as Aviators Are Collecting 36; Mississippi is Third Sea Dogs in Violent Action," Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1922: III1
Handwritten on note (see Item Ark: 21198/zz002cpjdj) in negative sleeve: Fleet tract [sic] me[...] Long Beach May 12 1922
The Long Beach High School track stretches across the foreground and back to the left. In the mid-ground at left, Palmer (rightmost) and his teammate Waldrop of the U.S.S. New York lead in the 220-yard race. Behind and to the left of them, Spies(?) (U.S.S. California) goalposts his arms as he runs. The rest of the field trails behind them at left. A few spectators at right view the race from behind a wire fence that lines the outside of the track. Empty bleachers at right rise behind them.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: TRACK, NAVY MEET AT LONG BEACH, 1922
Text from newspaper caption, Exciting Moments in the Pacific Fleet Cinder Championships Sailor Flynn, shown above, collected a flock of points yesterday afternoon at Long Beach High for the Pacific Fleet Air Force in the broad jump. Palmer and Waldrop, both of the U.S.S. New York, are observed in the lower picture helping each other bust the tape at the finish of the 220. Spies[?] of the U.S.S. California is seen bounding in a close third. [Los Angeles Times, 13 May 1922: III1]

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: United States. Navy. Pacific Fleet
Location: Long Beach (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Track athletics--California--Long Beach
Runners (Sports)--California--Long Beach
Military personnel--American--California--Long Beach
Running races--California--Long Beach

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_3849
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cpj3w
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