Garner Willis Taylor papers, ca. 1900-1950s

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Garner Willis Taylor papers, ca. 1900-1950s

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Collection includes correspondence (1909-1946 and some undated); score books from major and minor professional, amateur, collegiate and high school baseball games (1919-1952); diaries giving dates of travel and games (1936-1946); two scrapbooks of clippings covering Taylor's high school days in Wichita and early career (1902-1925); reference files on a variety of sports and other miscellaneous topics; miscellaneous documents including "The Saga of the Cowles family" by George Brandenburg and a bank passbook for the Iowa Sports War Relief Fund (1942-43); and ephemera including golf scorecards; programs from several Des Moines clubs; and programs for a 1912 Western League baseball game played in Des Moines and a 1912 Hankinson auto polo match at Madison Square Garden. The collection includes some documentation of corruption in professional sports (especially boxing and wrestling) as well as information on wrestler Frank Gotch.

3 linear ft. (5 boxes)

State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8011529

State Historical Society of Iowa, Library

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Taylor, Garner Willis, 1887-1965.

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Taylor served as sports editor for the Des Moines Register and Tribune from 1914 until 1965. Before coming to Des Moines he held positions as sports editor and report for the Wichita Beacon and the Wichita Eagle; secretary of Wichita's Western League baseball club; secretary of the St. Joseph (Mo.) Drummers Baseball Club; sports editor for the St. Joseph gazette; press agent for Ralph A. Hankinson's Auto Polo Co.; and writer for the Boyce Publishing Company in Chicago. From the descr...

Gotch, Frank A., $d 1877-1917.

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