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

Description:: Referee Jack Kennedy declares Young Peter Jackson the winner of a match with Gege Gravante at the Olympic.
Date:: July 31, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Los Angeles-based boxer Samuel Garrison, known professionally as Sandy Garrison Casanova or Sandy Casanova, seated and smiling. He is wearing a suit and has a moustache. In the background is a bookcase of encyclopedias.
Date:: [between 1930-1939?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Former boxing world champion and now referee Max Baer stands between George Godfrey, "the black shadow of Leiperville" (left), and Hank Hankinson during a boxing match between the two men at Olympic Auditorium. Hankinson was the winner of the match after Godfrey threw in the towel in the 8th round. Godfrey's loss was attributed to his age
Date:: August 10, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Boxer Jack Dempsey with wife Hannah Dempsey and daughter Joan Hannah while on a cross-country vacation with his mother. Jack Dempsey was an American professional boxer and a cultural icon of the 1920s. He held the World Heavyweight Championship from 1919 to 1926. He is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. His wife, popular as Hannah Williams, was a musical comedienne.
Date:: July 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Boxing match at the opening night of Ascot Arena in Ascot Park (speedway). Fighters Phil Salvadore and Sammy Mandell bump fists in the ring with officials and coaches surrounding them. Spectators are seated around the ring. Related to the article, "Gala Lightweight Ring Card at Ascot Tonight: Hudkins Meets O'Brien; Mandell and Salvadore Square Off at Donald's Open-Air Arena," Los Angeles Times, 06 Jun. 1925: 9. Ascot Arena was at 4317 Alhambra Avenue, Los Angeles.
Date:: [circa June 06,1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
Date:: June 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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