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Title
Johnny Weissmuller demonstrates his golf swing in front of a group of unidentified S.M.U. football players, Pasadena, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued
December 28, 1935
1935-12-28
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
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.
Photograph appears with the headline, "How Stanford and S.M.U. Players Spend Their Spare Time Before the Battle," Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec 1935: A15.
Johnny positions his golf club before the ball, while a group of ten of the players watch him.
Text from negative sleeve: 4336 - Billy Stamps. Johnny Weissmuller Harry Shuford Arthur Johnson John Sprage John Stuffleborne Loamon Phillips Shelly Burt J R Smith Maurice Orr Bill Tipton Cecil Colville Bob Turner S.M.U Team at Hotel Scenes 12-28-35. [stamped:] Jan 3-1936
Handwritten on negative: Johnny Weissmuller + S.M.U. Team 12/28/35
Text from newspaper caption: JOHNNY (TARZAN) WEISSMULLER SHOWS MUSTANG PLAYERS HOW IT'S DONE A group of the Southern Methodist players paid a visit to Brookside Park yesterday where they saw many of the country's leading golfers in action in the Pasadena Open. Here's Weismuller, demonstrating his driving form for edification of the interested players.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_13499
ark:/21198/zz002hnq5j
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Golf--California--Pasadena
Football players--California--Pasadena
Actors--American--California--Pasadena
Weissmuller, Johnny, 1904-1984
Southern Methodist University
Brookside Park (Pasadena, Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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