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Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, August 14, 1933, Gordon Warner Annexes One-Mile Ocean Swim, Troy Paddler Edges Out Herman Smith in Second Annual Red Cross Event; 114 Entered
Date:: August 13, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On October 14, 1928, former navy aquatic champion Jimmy Cherry set the endurance record for swimming by remaining in the Bimini Baths outdoor pool for sixty-five hours and two minutes. He was the first man in aquatic history to set a world’s endurance record.
Date:: [circa October 14, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Aileen Riggin, the young woman who won an Olympic championship for the United States diving team in 1920 at the age of 14, is stopping briefly in Los Angeles as she sails around the world on board the steamship President Van Buren of the Dollar Line.
Date:: March 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On October 14, 1928, former navy aquatic champion Jimmy Cherry set the endurance record for swimming by remaining in the Bimini Baths outdoor pool for sixty-five hours and two minutes. He was the first man in aquatic history to set a world’s endurance record.
Date:: [circa October 14, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Betty Gray was a student of Washington State University when photographed at UCLA participating in an aquatic sport event.
Date:: Aug. 9, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, August 14, 1933, Gordon Warner Annexes One-Mile Ocean Swim, Troy Paddler Edges Out Herman Smith in Second Annual Red Cross Event; 114 Entered
Date:: August 13, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On October 14, 1928, former navy aquatic champion Jimmy Cherry set the endurance record for swimming by remaining in the Bimini Baths outdoor pool for sixty-five hours and two minutes. He was the first man in aquatic history to set a world’s endurance record.
Date:: [circa October 14, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: On October 14, 1928, former navy aquatic champion Jimmy Cherry set the endurance record for swimming by remaining in the Bimini Baths outdoor pool for sixty-five hours and two minutes. He was the first man in aquatic history to set a world’s endurance record.
Date:: [circa October 14, 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: George Young, 17-year-old swimmer from Toronto, won the Wrigley Ocean Marathon swim from Catalina Island to Point Vicente, along the California coast. The 22 mile swim took him 15 hours and 44 minutes and earned him a $25,000 prize. Margaret C. Hauser of Long Beach and Martha Stager of Portland, Oregon also swam the marathon but did not finish.
Date:: January 17, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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