David Moriarty says in Post #281:
“No Tom. I don't just make these things up. The acreage shown as the golf course is substantially larger than the 117 acres it is supposed to be. You can see this from even looking at Bryan's overlay. Plus, I've measured it. But why don't you go out and pace off the metes and bounds and calculate it yourself?
For anyone confused:
1. The area Merion ultimately purchased was 117 yards.
2. TEPaul claims that the area marked "golf course" on the 1910 plan was 117 yards.”
David Moriarty says in Post #288:
“But let's close up the issue about the 1910 plan. You've insisted repeatedly that the road exactly represented the pre-swap golf course land and that it measured 117 acres. Do you now agree that you were wrong. If so, then your theory on the swap falls as well, doesn't it?
Let's clear this up before you move on to something else you don't really understand.”
I do not agree I am wrong. And therefore I stand behind my contention that Thompson’s resolution at the 4/19/11 board meeting that land be exchanged for land ALREADY BOUGHT therefore indicates Francis’s land swap idea happened AFTER Dec. 19, 1910, the date on which Horatio Gates Lloyd bought that land and could not have happened BEFORE THAT date and certainly not BEFORE Nov. 15, 1910, as your essay contends!
As for the reason I contend that the area marked “Golf Course” on the Nov. 15, 1910 plan was 117 acres (above you said yards, which is another example of your constant inaccuracies on this website
) which YOU DENY is because Horatio Gates Lloyd said exactly that HIMSELF in a circular to the MCC membership on Nov. 15, 1910, as reflected below;
“It is proposed to form on behalf of The Merion Cricket Club, a Corporation which will buy outright, the 117 acres, shown on the plan in green, and marked “Golf Course.”
Horatio Gates Lloyd, Nov. 15, 1910
So, you’re saying you don’t make things up? You're saying the land on that map in green is NOT 117 acres? You're saying it's LARGER than 117 in green on that Nov. 15. 1910 land plan Lloyd was referring to in his circular to his membership? You’re saying you know that because you’ve measured that land in green on the Nov. 15, 1910 land plan Lloyd was referring to in his circular to the MCC membership? How did you MEASURE that, on Google Earth??
And you claim you can see it’s larger on the map because of Bryan Izatt’s overlays??
How do you measure the dimensions of the area in green on that Nov. 15, 1910 land plan by just looking at Bryan Izatt’s overlays?
You’re asking US to believe you know what the dimensions of that land in green are rather than Horatio Gates Lloyd HIMSELF, the man who engineered this move to Ardmore? The man who very likely controlled HDC at that point? The man who took the deed into his own name for what would become Merion East's land for their golf course? The man who would serve as the president of The MCC Golf Association Corporation in 1910 and 1911 and on???
On these threads and in your preposterous essay on this website you have said Richard Francis might've been engaging in hyperbole for some of the things he said in his story which you base a major premise of your essay on? Why wouldn't a person like you say that since your premise doesn't jibe at all with some of the things he said in his story?
You say Hugh Wilson’s brother was engaging in hyperbole when he wrote for the first Merion history writer that in the main Hugh I. Wilson was responsible for the architecture of the East and West courses and to a man everyone of his committee told him so? Why WOULDN'T a person like you say that since his remarks don't jibe with your preposterous essay about Merion?
What are you going to do now----tell us Horatio Gates Lloyd, the man who probably engineered the entire move of MCC from Haverford to Ardmore was engaging in hyperbole in this circular and lying to his board, to his club, to his entire membership?
You don’t make stuff up? Do you ever NOT make stuff up when it comes to your preposterous campaign against Merion, against its architect Hugh Wilson, against Philadelphia? Against US?