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George Young rests after swimming 22 miles across the Catalina Channel at Point Vicente, Los Angeles, 1927

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Title: George Young rests after swimming 22 miles across the Catalina Channel at Point Vicente, Los Angeles, 1927
Date Created and/or Issued: January 16, 1927
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “George young Conquers Channel in Prize Race; Two Girls Get Awards,” Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan 1927: 1.
George Young lays on a stretcher covered in blankets. His trainer, Henry O’Byrne stands to the left with his hand on Young’s back.
Handwritten on negative: Geo. Young, winner, on Yacht club dock with friends
Text from negative sleeve: Yong, Geo. (no contact print made
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2632
ark:/21198/zz002dcf9x
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Swimmers--California
Young, George, 1910-1972
O'Byrne, Henry
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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