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...miles), 4,000,000 eyebrows were raised at such antipodean antics. Two months ago, however, a Chicago stockbroker named James Smith Ferebee played 144 holes of golf in one day to win the other half of a Virginia plantation he owned with his partner Fred Tuerk, a fellow-broker. U.S. golf addicts had to admit that there were strange golfers...
...What Broker Ferebee started was a nationwide golf-marathon craze-173 holes, 196 holes, 231 holes, 235 holes, posted almost daily by husky young caddies, schoolboys and even a Chicago housewife out to prove that 144 holes from dawn to dusk was nothing extraordinary. When a Northwestern University freshman played 301 holes, putt-putting around on a scooter bike, J. Smith Ferebee, nettled by such theft of his thunder, announced that he was embarking on a golf marathon to end all golf marathons: 600 holes in four days-a minimum of 72 holes in each of eight different cities...
Last week Broker Ferebee made good his boast (and incidentally won from Broker Tuerk $9,000 earmarked for paying off the mortgage on the plantation). On the home green of Long Island's Salisbury Country Club at 10:30 one evening, under the eerie glare of magnesium flares, Golfer Ferebee completed his two-a-day transcontinental jaunt. For four days, while the majority of U. S. golfers stuck to their radios and stockbrokers stuck to their tickers, Broker Ferebee had stuck to his golf ball-in Los Angeles and Phoenix, Kansas City and St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, Philadelphia...
That same year, in Minneapolis, a golf-zealous grain broker named Herman Berg forbade his frecklefaced 13-year-old daughter Patty to play any more football (she was halfback on a boys' team) gave her four of his old golf clubs; taught her many a trick of the game before she outgrew her middy blouses...
Last week Dr. Lawson's daughter (now married to an accountant named Julius Page) and Broker Berg's daughter (now freshman at the University of Minnesota) were co-favorites to win the U. S. women's golf championship, played at the Westmoreland Country Club, outside Chicago. Each had reached the top of the golf ladder with extraordinary leaps...