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Austin Clapp, Olympic medalist, at the Ambassador Hotel Plunge event, Los Angeles, 1928

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Title: Austin Clapp, Olympic medalist, at the Ambassador Hotel Plunge event, Los Angeles, 1928
Date Created and/or Issued: August 1928
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Swimmer Austin Clapp holding 2 displays of his swimming medals at the Ambassador Hotel Plunge event in Los Angeles. A life preserver behind him is inscribed: "Ambassador Hotel Plunge, Los Angeles, Calif." Clapp and several other athletes participated in the Plunge event en route to the senior national outdoor championships at Honolulu.
Austin Clapp was an American swimmer and water polo player who competed in the 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1928 he won a gold medal in the 4x200 m freestyle relay event and in 1932 he was a member of American water polo team, which won a bronze medal.
Text from newspaper caption: Honorary Life Membership in Hollywood Athletic Club has been voted Austin Clap, 17, Hollywood youth who was member of Olympic swimming team [Los Angeles Times, 9/14/1928
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1661
ark:/21198/zz002dc5dm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Youth
Swimmers--California--Los Angeles
People
Medals
Sports
Ambassador Hotel
Clapp, Austin Rhone, 1910-1971
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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