Golf Famous British Player Dead
(N.ZJ’A.-Reuter— Copyright) LONDON. Feb. 11. J. H. Taylor. Britain's "grand old man of golf," who woo the British open five times between UM and 1913. died at his home in Devonshire yesterday, aged 91. The son of a labourer, Taylor started his golfing career as a boy caddie and rose to become one of the greatest golfers of all time, winning his first open when he was 23. He scored a hole-in-one on W occasions.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30054, 12 February 1963, Page 18
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