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In his essay Bob claimed the sport/game distinction was developed by Behr during the Crane debate."
Tom MacWood:
You don't read very well or else you don't comprehend what you read very well do you? But I guess I already knew that.
Bob Crosby did not claim in his essay that the sport/game distinction was first developed by Behr during the Crane debate. Go back and read Bob's essay "Joshua Crane" again or as many times as you need to for a full understanding of what the essay actually said in this vein. Bob mentioned that the sport/game distinction was made by Behr in the early 1920s perhaps during a Rules debate with John Low.
Behr used the sport/game distinction in his May 1923 article enititled "Principles of Golf Architecture." I am not sure if that was the first time he used that distinction or if that article is the one Bob Crosby was referring to about Behr and Low and a rules debate. That article does mention the Rules of Golf and the sport/game distinction.
So again, Bob did not say Behr developed that sport/game distinction during the Behr debate; all he said is that Behr used it as a way of countering Crane's insistence on, and call for greater fairness and equity in golf as is necessary in other games in which a ball is vied for between human opponents-----UNLIKE IN GOLF!
Furthermore, you have written what you claim is an essay counterpointing Bob Crosby's essay "Joshua Crane" or you claim you wrote an essay within an essay or whatever that even you mentioned was unorthodox. No kidding! You also mentioned that Ran Morrissett refused to post it on this website because he said he thought it was too controversial. I think we are all beginning to see why Ran Morrissett may've felt your "counterpoint" or your essay or your essay within an essay, or whatever you call it
was too controversial-----eg you were trying to counterpoint an essay (Bob Crosby's "Joshua Crane") you neither read very carefully or fully considered or comprehended, or all of the foregoing.
And you call yourself an expert golf architecture historian/researcher/analyst/writer??
Truly amazing!!
As I've mentioned on this website numerous times, you certainly are a very good raw researcher as you have proven your worth for a long time in that respect by coming up with all kinds of interesting historical material but you've also proven you are sorely lacking in the historian, writer, and particularly the analyst categories, and your remark that Bob Crosby's claimed in his essay that Behr developed his sport/game distinction during the Crane debate is just another good example of that .