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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...
Unlike famed Pheidippides, the Greek runner who fell dead as he took the last step of the first marathon in 490 B.C. (22 miles from Marathon to Athens), 31-year-old Golfer Ferebee, after dog-trotting almost 40 miles a day for four days, topped off his super-marathon by stopping at New York's World's Fair Grounds and playing his 601st hole on the stroke of midnight for publicity before continuing to Manhattan and a hotel bed at last...
...YORK--J. Smith Foresee, 31 year old Chicago grain broker, completed his 600-hole, coast-to coast golf marathon at 10:20 tonight...
Thus was started one of the most publicized bets of the past decade-a golf marathon for half of a $30,000 plantation and $2,500 in side bets. Only stipulations were that Golfer Ferebee must 1) make good his boast between dawn and dusk; 2) get 95 or less for each of the eight rounds...
...record is Ferebee's marathon. In 1933, in Los Angeles, one Bob Swanson played 306 holes in 19 hours...