"Well Tom, why don't you lay your hands on the Master Plan, find the passages where Ross called them top, topped, or fore bunkers, then scan and post it for everyone to see?
It would be an interesting bit of history to see how bunkers of this type were described in that period and it would add much to the context of how we view the era.
Surely, that's not an unreasonable request."
JimK:
Well, it's probably not an unreasonable request in your opinion if someone asked you to do that but the fact is I've never done that on here (haven't you noticed?
) and I don't even know how (for someone who has posted on here as much as I have over the years I'm actually remarkably tech unsavy). In the past if something really important came up that I had and I thought it needed to be put on here I would get Wayne to do it because we work together all the time and he lives nearby and he is tech savy. But as of the last year or so Wayne has no interest at all in doing a thing for this website because of what a couple of clowns on here put him through on those Merion threads, and I have to admit I sure do understand that and frankly endorse his opinion and his postion on that completely.
That 1927 GMGC Ross master plan in which Ross mentioned top shot bunkers is around here in my office somewhere and when I find it I would be glad to transcribe for you word for word the sentences in it from Ross where he mentioned top shot or topped shot bunkers at GMGC. Alternatively, I believe I made available to Bob Labbance, both Ross's 1927 GMGC master plan when he mentioned those top shot bunkers AND Wayne Stiles' 1940s GMGC master plan when he recommended the removal of all of them as Bob wrote a book on Wayne Stiles. Perhaps Bob Labbance put both master plans in his book on Stiles and you and MacWood could both view it that way. However, if you are or have become anything like MacWood and Moriarty and start accusing me of transcribing it wrong or getting it wrong because of a vivid imagination, as MacWood just did yesterday on this thread, or doctoring and altering documents as Moriarty has accused me of doing on here, well then, JimK, I look at that as your problem and not mine!
Or, there's even another way to look at this question of whether Ross did or did not refer to those bunkers as top shot or topped shot bunkers. Have you noticed how Tom MacWood, as he always seems to do on here, prefaced his contention that Ross never used that term and that it's a modern invention with the words "To my knowledge?" Persumably he said that and makes that contention because he has never read anywhere that Ross used that term and apparently in his particular mind if he has never read something himself he seems to automatically assume it could not have existed or happened and he certainly does seem inclined to never take someone else's word for it, at least not mine or someone like Wayne Morrison on a subject like the history of Merion's architecture about which Wayne arguably knows more, at this point, than anyone else in the world. Therefore, I will simply say "To my knowledge" Ross did refer to those bunkers as top shot or topped shot bunkers because I have read in that 1927 GMGC master plan that Ross referred to them that way.
I hope that answers your question.