Location: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives / Subject: Sports / Date: 1937 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Belmont High School fullback Baylor Maynard. Maynard was also a star of track and field, he was the world's interscholastic pole-vault champion in 1938
Date:: [1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Students from Black-Foxe Military Institute in uniform on the basketball court for their traditional competition against Cumnock School.
Date:: January 13, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Henry Armstrong trains with a punching bag. Henry Jackson Jr. (1912 - 1988) was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He holds the honor of being the only boxer to hold three world championships at the same time.
Date:: 1930s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Bob Nestell raising his glove after defeating Lee Ramage in a boxing match at the Olympic Auditorium. Nestell and Ramage and their managers, Pop Foster and Gus Wilson respectively, were considered the "Big Four" of California boxing.
Date:: [circa April 11, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Bob Nestell and Lee Ramage boxing at the Olympic Auditorium. Nestell and Ramage and their managers, Pop Foster and Gus Wilson respectively, were considered the "Big Four" of California boxing.
Date:: [circa April 11, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Capt. Leopold McLaglen, self-styled Jiu-Jitsu champion of the world, appears in court over charges that he attempted to blackmail and extort his former employer, millionaire Philip M. Chancellor. McLaglen was accused of threatening to implicate Chancellor in a robbery, unless Chancellor paid McLaglen $20,000. McLaglen is accompanied in court by his lawyer, Harry F. Sewell, at left. November 18, 1937.
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Capt. Leopold McLaglen, self-styled Jiu-Jitsu champion of the world, appears in court over charges that he attempted to blackmail and extort his former employer, millionaire Philip M. Chancellor. McLaglen was accused of threatening to implicate Chancellor in a robbery, unless Chancellor paid McLaglen $20,000. McLaglen is accompanied in court by his lawyer, Harry F. Sewell, at left. November 18, 1937.
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Capt. Leopold McLaglen, self-styled Jiu-Jitsu champion of the world, appears in court over charges that he attempted to blackmail and extort his former employer, millionaire Philip M. Chancellor. McLaglen was accused of threatening to implicate Chancellor in a robbery, unless Chancellor paid McLaglen $20,000. McLaglen is accompanied in court by his lawyer, Harry F. Sewell, at left. November 18, 1937.
Date:: November 18, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Champion tennis player Don Budge on the court. Budge was number one in the world for five years, he is still considered one of the best all time players
Date:: [between 1925-1945?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chief Little Wolf holding El Pulpo in a headlock during a wrestling match. The referee tries to separate them. The two wrestlers met in the ring several times during the late 1930s.
Date:: between 1937 and 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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