US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Left to right: Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, J. Westbrook Pegler, Babe Didrikson, and Braven Dyer. Dyer wrote for the Los Angeles Times. Gallico was a sportswriter as well as a novelist. Rice wears traditional golfing clothes: plus fours, long golf socks, and a golf cap. The other men wear belted slacks. All the men are wearing button down shirts; Pegler's is collarless, and Rice wears a bow tie. Pegler also is wearing a golf cap. Didrikson wears a midi skirt and a t-shirt with the Olympic logo, and a soft brimmed hat. All five people are holding golf clubs at their sides or in front of them; five golf balls lie on the ground around a hole. This photograph appears in "Nothing Slow About the 'Babe' on the Links," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan 1934: E4. Text accompanying photograph in newspaper: Although she has played only a few games of golf, "Babe" Didrikson, the two-gun gal from Texas, was quick to learn the ins and outs of the game. Here are members of the press who played with "Babe" at Brentwood during the Olympics. Left to right, Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, Westbroow [sic] Pegler, the heroine herself and Braven Dyer of The Times. Miss Didrikson learned all angles of the game so quickly that she not only forgot to count all strokes but even left out one member of the fivesom. Yep, the gal, certainly is speedy. Handwritten on negative sleeve: Grantland Rice <-- sportswriter & Babe Didrikson (Zaharias) athlete 4282 Wide World Rice & The Babe; [circled] Earl; for Braven Dyer Sportswriters and journalists golfing with multi-talented athlete Mildred "Babe" Didrikson (later "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias) Didrikson Zaharias won two gold medals in track and field in the 1932 Olympics before becoming a professional golfer and winning 10 LPGA championships.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13347 ark:/21198/zz002hnhx1
Subject
Track and field athletes Golf--California--Los Angeles Novelists, American--20th century Olympic athletes Journalists--American Sportswriters--California--Los Angeles Golfers--United States Dyer, Braven (John Braven), 1900-1983 Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, 1911-1956 Pegler, J. Westbrook (James Westbrook), 1894-1969 Gallico, Paul, 1897-1976 Rice, Grantland, 1880-1954
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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