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Bobby Pearce and Ted Phelps race for world championship title on Lake Ontario, Canada, 1933

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Title: Bobby Pearce and Ted Phelps race for world championship title on Lake Ontario, Canada, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: September 1, 1933
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.
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.
Bobby Pearce, left, and Ted Phelps, right, on Lake Ontario facing large crowd gathered for race.
Text from negative sleeve: [handwritten:] Phelps, Ted Sculler
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11245
ark:/21198/zz002h97w5
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Athletes--Australian--Canada
Rowing races--Canada--Toronto
Rowers
Athletes--British
Pearce, Bobby, 1905-1976
Phelps, Ted
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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