"Is there any evidence of a collaboration in 1920 or are we certain it was a Flynn solo job? I know Flynn's very earliest projects are not as well documented as his later work. He was also fairly active as a construction man around that time.
On another thread Mike Cirba threw out the names of J. Harold Wickersham and George Franklin as the possible creators of the 1913 nine. What do you know of these gentlemen?"
Tom MacWood:
What we know about 'gentlemen' of the likes of J. Harold Wickersham and George S. Franklin is that amongst others they were some prominent MEMBERS of Lancaster GC. Or I should say that is what I know about them. Mike Cirba can speak for himself about what he knows about them.
My source on the above is from Jim Finegan's immense tome entitled "A Centennial Tribute to GOLF in Philadelphia" and something of a personal research relationship over the years with friends and members of Lancaster GC. Do you have the book or have you read it and if not why not since you seem to promote yourself as some sort of expert golf and golf architectural historian and researcher? Have you ever even been to Lancaster GC or met a single one of their members or their historians?
That book took Jim Finegan about 4-5 years to write and it was contracted and owned by GAP (the Golf Association of Philadelphia).
It would seem to me from Finegan's section in that book on the Lancaster GC that he was looking at some very specific club records from that club from which he took what he wrote about Lancaster GC's history in his book.
Wickersham and Franklin were just two of a number of prominent men from Lancaster, Pa who started that club in 1900. Wickersham was the vice president and Franklin was the secretary of the club at its founding.
Flynn dealt with these kinds of men at numerous of the clubs that made up the inventory of his architectural career. They probably weren't all that much different than the types of people from the clubs he dealt with over the years like Merion East's Wilson Committee of Wilson, Lloyd, Griscom, Francis and Toulmin, or Shinnecock's Lucien Tyng or Kittansett's Frederick Hood, or Pocantico Hills's J.D. Rockefeller Jr et al or Seaview's and Boca Raton's Clarence Geist or Mill Road Farm's Edward Lasker and on and on and on.
For someone who purports to have historical research ability and knowledge of some of these clubs and their histories it's surprising you don't know these things and have to ask questions like you did above. Perhaps you should begin to establish some working research relationships with these clubs or at least the good historians of them such as Finegan, Morrison et al as some of us have and have to, rather than just depending on your sketchy, indirect and apparently irrelevent newspaper accounts that seem to always be your sole research and analysis M.O.
I suppose it is understandable that the likes of you and Moriarty once upon a time thought you could do this kind of historical architectural research nad analysis in that kind of indirect and sketchy way with some of these significant clubs and their architecture and architects without first or ever establishing a working research relationship with them but one would certainly think by this time you would have woken up to the error of your ways.