Although I don’t want to post on this thread or subject anymore, the following remarks of Tom MacWood just have to be addressed before I depart from this subject on this website. The other day I sent an email to the administrator of this website about this thread and this subject of Merion and then we discussed it on the phone. We both agree it reflects badly on the main participants and that it is also reflecting badly on this website and it’s even beginning to do what might be termed “collateral damage” at some clubs and certainly including Merion. The 2009 Walker Cup is coming up at Merion in less than two months. A lot of us will be there and very much including the administrator of this site. Because of this subject on here it seems like some negative things may be happening and certainly none of us want that. Bradley Anderson, arguably the most realistic and coolest head on this thread mentioned this on this thread some weeks ago and some sort of took him to task for even suggesting what he did. People on here who did that should reconsider and take him seriously because what he was suggesting and indicating is what happens in the real world. Perhaps some on here don’t care about that because they don’t live in the real world of an actual relationship with some of these clubs but others of us do including the administrator of this website. I suggested the main protagonists of this thread and subject just be asked to stop posting on this subject on here. I agreed to do that and apparently Moriarty has too. I would ask and suggest that MacWood and Cirba do as well. Now, with this issue of me altering documents on here; I have never done anything like that and never will. My approach and philosophy on these things is that I will offer my opinions on what I know and what I have. If someone disagrees with my opinions then that’s their good right. If someone wants to see the actual documents then they can try to establish a working relationship with this club as I have over the last thirty years. If I’ve made some mistakes in some posts on this thread then that is what they are---mistakes, even though I still don’t know what mistakes some think I’ve made. Sometimes we probably get some words or spelling wrong in what we write on here. A good example of that is that Tom MacWood despite being corrected about half a dozen times still can’t seem to figure out how to spell the name correctly of one of Merion’s major participants and historical recorders, Hugh Wilson’s brother Alan. MacWood spells it Allan or Allen or seemingly any other possible way than the correct way. For the last time HIS NAME is ALAN D. Wilson!!! This “we” and “they” debate is complete nonsense. The fact is that Wilson report refers to the committee in that report with BOTH “we” and “they”. If that doesn’t make grammatical sense to someone like Tom MacWood then that’s his problem because that is the way that report was written over 98 years ago. In his last remarks in posts in the last day or so he does not say he thinks I altered documents and even deliberately, he states that I have done that---eg altered them and altered them deliberately and he even assigns a motive for doing that to me, and he even claimed in writing that somehow everyone on here can see that or should know that. In his last remark below he says I haven’t even denied doing that. Well, as far as I know no one has ever asked me to consider confirming or denying it but since this issue has come up this way from MacWood I categorically DENY ever altering any documents at any time to do with Merion or anything else on this website, deliberately or otherwise. If I have made some mistakes in wording or spelling, as most everyone on here does and has at one time or another, by all means point them out and I'll consider correcting them if appropriate.
Cirba and MacWood I suggest you two at least stop posting not only on this thread but on this subject as well as I have and apparently Moriarty has. It really is doing some collateral damage as Bradley Anderson suggested it would and the sooner you realize that the better it will be for all of us and for this website. I guarantee you will have no disagreement from this website’s administrator if you do precisely that and like RIGHT NOW!
And now, having agreed with the administrator not to post anymore on this subject I surely hope this one will be the last on this unfortunately issue on here!
“I hope we aren't having a repeat of the Allen Wilson affair. When it was brought to everyone's attention that TEP had altered that document, he got upset, refused to explain why he did it, and he and David mysteriously disappeared from the site. Now we have a second example of TEP altering documents, no explanation, and he & David are no longer posting on this thread. When the going gets tough TEP is no where to be found.”
“I'm only confused why TEP continues to get a pass for altering documents. Jeff B asked a while back what a historian would think of this debate, I can tell you what he or she would think if they learned someone deliberately altered documents to support their case, and it would not be good.”
“Rich
They were altered. A misquote is an inoccent mistake, these were obviously not innocent mistakes. These were deliberate acts to help support his case, and he hasn't denied it either.”