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| | LEGENDARY SURFER: John Heath "Doc" Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | In his limited-edition photo collection, later to be (thankfully) reprinted for later generations of us, Doc documented "'How All This Started.'" Below the title, the photo shows Doc Ball, "snapping one in the good old days when the camera was carried out by holding it between his teeth. |
 | | Later on in 1937, Doc documented more big surf, this time at Hermosa: "Twenty Footers Roll In" shows Doc, himself ("having deserted his Graflex"), on a big, sloping overheader on Turkey Day, 1937. |
 | | The original trophy was not much to speak of, so, later on, Tom Blake had a nicely embossed trophy cup made in order to pass on to succeeding winners. |
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