Subject: Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: This photograph is similar to another one of George Godfrey captioned "Doin The Charleston." Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 1925: B1.
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph is related to the article, “GRAVANTE VICTOR IN WILD SCRAP: JOHNSON ON LOSING END Low Blows Halt Fight Twice Throng of 9000 Thrilled by Spectacular Bout; Irwin Knocks Out Clayton,” Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 1936: A9
Date:: March 24, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: French boxer Georges Carpentier in a fighting pose in a corner of a boxing ring. The photograph may have been taken during Carpentier's visit to the United States for a boxing match.
Date:: [between 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Former boxer and middleweight champion of the world, Norman (Kid McCoy) Selby (standing left) and Judge A. A. Scott (seated right). Selby was in court to claim $105 that was taken from him by the authorities to use as evidence when he was arrested for murder 13 years ago. At that time (1924), Selby was charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Mrs. Theresa W. Moers. Selby served time in San Quentin before making parole in 1932. Selby was given back his $105 (all in large, old-style bills) minus a 10 cent county tax. He planned to use the money for some last minute Christmas shopping.
Date:: December 23, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fidel La Barba, smiles directly at the camera while sitting at a desk with a typewriter and documents. He wears glasses, a tie, and sport jacket. Behind him is a window with the blinds closed. La Barba was a former championship fighter, who upon retirement, attended Stanford and received journalism degree. He became a sportswriter and eventually became a boxing advisor for Hollywood films. He wrote the related article and describes the grim reality of being a boxer.
Date:: October 10, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Vincent Lopez, left, poses with Max Baer, right in a boxing ring with a crowded theater in the background.
Date:: April 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dr. W. L. Carver, physician for Hollywood Stadium, checks out the rope burn on boxer Ceferino Garcia's knee while Garcia's manager George Parnassus and Everett Saunders from the State Athletic Commission look on. Dr. Carver advised Garcia to take a break from working out as a precaution against infection.
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Dr. W. L. Carver, physician for Hollywood Stadium, checks out the rope burn on boxer Ceferino Garcia's knee while Garcia's manager George Parnassus and Everett Saunders from the State Athletic Commission look on. Dr. Carver advised Garcia to take a break from working out as a precaution against infection.
Date:: February 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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