"Of the 21 "Far and Sure" articles I located in the 1911-1913 issues of American Golfer, 19 covered Eastern Pennsylvania and only the two articles MacWood posted (Jul 1913 and Aug 1913) covered Western Pennsylvania. The only other F&S article that year (Jan 1913) covered Eastern Pennsylvania. Saying that F&S was based in Western Pennsylvania is a bit of a stretch. He covered Western Pennsylvania for two months over a period of three years."
Wayne:
I was looking at that today too, and it seems to get more interesting. It looks like Hazard contributed all the "Eastern Pennsylvania Notes" in 1910, and then in 1911 "Far and Sure" contributed seven months of the "Eastern Pennsylvania Notes" with Hazard contributing two months of "Eastern Pennsylvania Notes" with the other three months being under the pen name of Hazard coming as "Mid Atlantic."
In 1912 "Far and Sure" contributed eleven months of "Eastern Pennsylvania Notes" with the only other month of 1912 being Hazard from the "Mid Atlantic."
In 1913 Hazard contributed nine months of "Eastern Pennsylvania Notes" with Far and Sure contributing one month of the "Eastern Pennsylvania Notes" (the January 1913 contribution on Merion we think is Tillie) with two months by Far and Sure contributing the "Western Pennsylvania Notes."
As far as I can see the only time any of these pen names doubled up in one month under one regional heading was in July 1913 when the REGULAR Western Pennsylvania pen name "William Pitt" contributed to the "Western Pennsylvania Notes" in the same month Far and Sure did.
I guess it's possible that the same Western Pennsylvania correspondent contributed two sets of copy under two pen names but that seems sort of pointless.
If you ask me it was probably Tillie (or someone other than Tillie or the regular "Western Pennsylvania Notes" correspondent) who was out there filing copy in that region (perhaps Travis himself).
Then that was the end of the pen name "Far and Sure", and for the ensuing years the "Eastern Pennsylvania Notes" were under the pen name "Hazard" that I believe most everyone believes was Tillinghast. In Western Pennsylvania it was pretty much always the pen name "William Pitt."
It looks to me like some of the contributors used various regional pen names somewhat interchangeably probably for convenience depending on where they were at any time.
Whatever Mr. MacWood is trying to say or point he's trying to make doesn't seem very apparent does it? He said Far and Sure was based in Western Pennsylvania in 1913. Why would that be---eg because "Far and Sure's" pen name filed copy in the "Western Pennsylvania Notes" section for two months in the history of the magazine?
That doesn't sound like a very good reason to move to Western Pennsylvania and be based there for two months, does it?
By the way, Mr MacWood, why don't you just tell us what the identity of Far and Sure is since you mentioned on a post on this thread that you knew it and you've never retracted that statement or even acknowledged questions about that statement even after being asked by a few people and repeatedly? And while you're at it why don't you explain the second part of that statement where you said you figured out "Far and Sure's" identity off some ship records? I really want to hear your explanation on that one because that really does sound like a pretty neat trick!