Bobby Pearce races for world championship title on Lake Ontario, Canada, 1933

Title: Bobby Pearce races for world championship title on Lake Ontario, Canada, 1933
Date Created: September 1, 1933
Date: 1933-09-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Possibly related to the article, “Ted Phelps is Beaten by Pearce,” Los Angeles Times, 2 Sept. 1933: 5.
British rower Ted Phelps raced Australian Bobby (Henry Robert) Pearce on September 1st on Lake Ontario, Canada. The race attracted a large crowd and followed Bobby Pearce’s Olympic title in Los Angeles the year before. Pearce beat Phelps in all three races, which earned him $5,000 cash and the world championship title.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] Phelps, Ted Sculler

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Pearce, Bobby, 1905-1976
Phelps, Ted
Location: Lake Ontario (N.Y. and Ont.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Athletes--Australian--Canada
Rowers
Rowing races--Canada--Toronto
Athletes--British

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_11246
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h97xp
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