Sorry Tom,
But I did answer your questions, and unlike you, did so quite specifically. I stated that the answers were already posted in this thread. By doing that I showed that anyone who desires to see them can find them, and quite simply too. You though, as usual refuse to accept that you are simply wrong.
I am not "BURYING" Worthington's story as you put it. I am telling the TRUTH about what actually happened and not MAKING history up as you appear to be doing based SOLELY on what you BELIEVE happened.
You, despite being called on by numerous people on this thread and once again by me in my previous post and which YOU PARRED YOUR OWN COURSE by ignoring once again, simply have yet to produce a SINGLE piece of FACT that states that Worthington designed the golf course... NOTHING.
By the way, you already know that I have his NY Times obituary because earlier in this thread I referred to what it ACTUALLY stated.
Thank you for that "link" but it is worthless to me. I happen to have a copy of the MANUSCRIPT of an in-depth biography of C.C. Worthington written by his son and grandson. I also have several other far more in-depth brief biographies of him some that were written while he was alive and some immedioately after his death. In addition to that I have several books written at the tiome that Worthington arrived in Pa. and Shawnee that tell that story from their perspective incl;uding those who actually SOLD HIM THE PROPERTY! On top of all of that I happen to also have several hun dred newspaper accounts that deal with all of the events of Shawnee, Buckwood Park, Worthington State Park, the golf course, Worthington Mowers and much, much more...
I am quite sure I know and understand Worthington, his businesses and his family's history a whole lot more than you do....
What you are attempting to do with Worthington at Shawnee is what Ron Whitten did with Joseph Burbeck and Bethpage. The damage done by Whitten to Burbeck's true legacy is monumental as a great man who did an incredible work will never be rememberred for that. You sully Worthington's legacy by your proclamations of what you "believe" he must have done because what he actually did accomplish during those years was far more important and lasting than the building of the golf course. You can read about it next May and you'll then reralize that the chapter titled "Worthington's Vision" isn't burying a thing about what an amazing man accomplished.
So Tom, how about answering the questions you were asked:
1- On what FACTS do you base this statement? On what Facts do you ascribe that Tilly referred to himself as the Dean of American BORN ( if you're going to state something as fact you can at least get the quote correct) golf architects" and that he did so because of his "rudimentary golf course" he designed and taught the game on in 1898?
2- When will you provide even a SINGLE piece of factual evidence that Worthington designed the Shawnee golf course?
By the way, before you're tempted to call me a liar again as to what I claim to have, here's the cover to one of the manuscripts, this one written by his grandson...