"So let's see now, you guys are
-- assuming Wilson was out there before 1911, even though he strongly intimates that he did not get involved until 1911, and that the first evidence of him doing anything is February 1911. (Just what are you assuming he was doing out there, aside from trespassing on land Merion did not yet even control?)
-- assuming Wilson was wrong when he said that, in March 1911 he knew no more than the average clubman,
-- you must be assuming he was also wrong when he said that CBM gave them a good start in laying out the course,
-- so you must also be assuming that Alan Wilson was wrong when he said that CBM's help on the layout was of great help and value.
-- you assume Francis couldn't have meant it when he specifically described the exact land traded for and also described the land given up.
-- you assume Whigham was exaggerating or feeble when he stated that Merion was a Macdonald course.
-- and of course Mike even assumes CBM was lying when when he described how NGLA was created, which means you must also be assuming that Behr and others who reported how NGLA was created were wrong as well.
-- surely you assume the newspapers were wrong when they said, before Wilson was back from his trip, that Merion was based on the great holes abroad.
-- and findlay must also have been wrong when wrote that CBM was responsible for the layout of at least some of the holes at Merion.
-- and lets not forget, you must assume that the supposedly arrogant and self-centered CBM was out bragging about a course you assume he had little to do with, even supposedly going over the plans with Tillinghast.
-- And you assume that there is no reason that Tillinghast was talking to CBM about Merion, and not Wilson.
-- And you assume that the fact that it was Macdonald who approved the final layout plan is meaningless, and assume that the fact that it presented to the board as the one approved by CBM probably means less.
-- And then there is the fact that Wilson isn't even mentioned in any of this. You assume that couldn't mean anything.
No wonder you guys have so much time to post. You just assume the facts you need to make your case!"
David Moriarty:
I would definitely call that some deceptive legalistic dialectic OVERLOAD!
I don't need to go through some fallacious logic laundry list like that!
I feel I only need to offer A SINGLE piece of actual and factual material evidence from MCC's archive that YOU WERE NOT AWARE OF when you wrote your essay!
TO WIT:
The Wilson Committee Report to the MCC Board meeting of April 19, 1911 when it was reported they:
"Laid out numerous courses on the land....then went to NGLA (and there is no mention at all in that report or Wilson's letter to Oakley that Merion East's plans were discussed while at NGLA) and then came back and rearranged the course into five different plans!" (paraphrased)
WHAT IN THE WORLD DO YOU THINK THE WILSON COMMITTEE DID ALL THAT THEMSELVES AT ARDMORE FOR IF THEY ALREADY HAD A ROUTED AND DESIGNED GOLF COURSE FROM 1910 TO JUST CONSTRUCT, as you claimed in your essay?
In other words, the Wilson Committee spent three months in the winter and early spring doing ALL THAT BEFORE they went INTO CONSTRUCTION!! NUMEROUS DIFFERENT COURSES.....FIVE DIFFERENT PLANS!!! What do you think they spent three months doing----eg rearranging stakes on the ground because they couldn't figure out Macdonald's routing and design?
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AND FOR WHAT??? WHAT DO you think they did all THAT FOR?
GOD ALMIGHTY it would be great if you two jerks would just give up on this preposterous and endless argument of yours about Merion! Are you two really THIS INSECURE?? IS it really THIS difficult to admit you were wrong abour some of your various and important premises because you JUST had insufficient research information when you contemplated and wrote THAT essay??