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Title: Tommy Hitchcock
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
During the 1920s and 1930s, Tommy Hitchcock dominated the demanding, fast-paced sport of polo. He played on four national champion teams and on the U.S. Olympic team. (It's also been said that he served as the model for Tom Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby.") When Hitchcock came west to challenge the best California teams, Hollywood stars came out in droves to watch "Ten Goal Tommy." Hitchcock died in World War II. Photo dated: January 31, 1929.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048837
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 164.
CARL0000052873
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17302
Subject: Hitchcock, Tommy
Polo
Polo players
Polo ponies
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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