Joe,
You also understand exactly what that means as far as Hugh Wilson, the supposed "constructor of Merion East to someone else's plans because he didn't have enough knowledge to have designed that course", don't you?
It means that right after Merion East came into being, Hugh Wilson was called by Robert Lesley to build Merion West, by Clarence Geist to build Seaview, by Ellis Gimbel to wholly revise Philmont (South), by Francis Meehan to design North Hills, and by Robert Lesley and others to design Cobb's Creek! All of this between 1912 and 1914!
No wonder the guy resigned from the chairmanship of the Green Committee of Merion in winter 1914!
This from a guy who had a day job running an insurance business with his brother!!!
Yes....I'm sure that all of these captains of United States industry just wanted him because he was able to follow CB Macdonald's plans in building Merion....
The one wonderful and positive thing that all of this rancor and division on this site over the Merion wars has generated...mostly due to your great work, Joe...is that Hugh Wilson was actually a much more active and a much more influential architect than anyone had heretofore knew or understood.
Bravo, Joe