Portrait of Benito Ramos

Title: Portrait of Benito Ramos
Subject: Olympic Games (15th : 1952 : Helsinki, Finland); Portraits
Description: Benito Ramos of Mexico competed at the 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games.

Caption:
Benito Ramos, nuestro estupendo esgrimista dio duna gran exhibicion aunque cayo vencido. Su derrota den florete, a manos del ahora campeon olimpico, el frances [Christian Marie Auguste] d'Oriola, es una derrota honrosa, por mas que la palabrita parece choteada en nuestro ambiente.

Translation:
Benito Ramos, our wonderful fencer, gave a great exhibition even though he was defeated. His defeat on the foil, at the hands of the now Olympic champion, the French [Christian Marie Auguste] d'Oriola, is an honorable defeat, even though the world is shocked.
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Date: July 25, 1952
Temporal Coverage: 1950s
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Is Part Of: George Masin Collection
Format: 6.9 x 11.2 cm
Language: Spanish
Type: Photograph
Identifier: 2020.11.081
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by George Masin; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Amanda Michael