Baz, he could be right, but I sure wouldn't bet the farm on it. You don't know if he got that from a reliable source, and even then, we've even seen some usually reliable sources get things wrong, like Tom Wheeler's claim that the TV finish was named after Les Paul's TV show. And some old-timers remembering things that didn't happen.
Now if Walter Carter had found some historical info to confirm it, I'd consider it closed.