Subject: Sports promoters--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Related article: Sports world saddened by passing of uncle Tom McCarey who visioned title fight,” Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 1936: A11.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: C. C. Pyle, an early sports promoter, in the office of Lloyd S. Nix, the Los Angeles city prosecutor, addressing charges of not paying athletes with whom he had contracts. Seated from left: C. C. Pyle (sports promoter), James M. Stevens (Pyle's attorney), Lloyd S. Nix (City Prosecutor). Standing: Eugene T. McGann (an attorney), William Krowl (Assistant City Prosecutor). Reported in "Nix Postpones Action in Case Against Pyle,: Los Angeles Times, 07 Aug. 1929: A1.
Date:: August 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: 35-year-old William Focher was mistakenly shot by police, believed to have held up the Olympic Auditorium. He got into an altercation with Lou Daro and Det. Lt. Sanderson claimed officers believed Focher and his companion John Moore were bandits.
Date:: July 11, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "Jury May List More in Graft," Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov 1938: A1.
Date:: November 28, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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