Polo match between Long Island-based Midwick and Los Indios, a Southern California team, Santa Monica, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Polo match between Long Island-based Midwick and Los Indios, a Southern California team, Santa Monica, 1935

Photographer

Strock, George

Date Created

[February 25, 1935]

Date

1935-02-25

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with the article, "MIDWICK CAPTURES COAST POLO CROWN: LOS INDIOS DROPS GAME Roach Scores Winning Goal Teams Tied at Close of Regulation Time But Midwick Cops, 12-11", Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb 1935: 11.
Four players on the field in a Polo match between Long Island-based Midwick and Los Indios, a Southern California team.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Jimmy Mills, who scored two goals for Midwick yesterday, is shown knocking the ball (made of willow root) down the field against Los Indios. Behind Mills are Aiden Roark and Big Boy Williams of the losers, while the fourth player is Eric Pedley, Midwick star, who banged the ball through the markers for six goals. Midwick won the Pacific Coast Open championship, 12 to 11, after two extra periods, with Hal Roach scoring the winning tally. (Times photo by George Strock)
Text from negative sleeve: Polo Midwick, vs. LCS Indios, 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Pedley, Eric, 1896-1986
Williams, Big Boy, 1900-1962
Roark, Aiden, 1905-1984
Mills, James P., 1909-1987

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Polo--California--Santa Monica