FREAK GOLFER
MR. FEREBEE AGAIN BET OF 100,000 DOLLARS TRANSCONTINENTAL MATCH LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 The Chicago broker tvho played 144 holes at golf last month, Mr. J. Smith Ferebee, has wagered 100,000 dollars, that he can play 600 holes in a fourday transcontinental match. Starting at dawn to-dav, he played 83 holes, then flew to Phoenix, where he proposes to play 84 holes before nightfall. Subsequently, lie will play holes eaqh morning and afternoon at Kansas Citv, St.'Louis, Milwaukee, Chicago, « Philadelphia and New York. He must >; 'do f erejry 18. holes under, 100.. _ , Playing through thunderstorms on August 6, Mr. Ferebee won his wager that he would play 144 holes at golf, for half of a plantation in Virginia and. £625 in cash. He played the 144 holes in 15 hours 5 minutes, having started at 4.5 a.m. The course was sodden and Mr. Ferebee was drenched when ho finished and was suffering from blistered heels and lumbago. "Everything hurts," he moaned as he holed his 687 th stroke on the last ereen. His scores in the eight rounds in order were:—9o, 82, 82, 82, 87, 87, 88, 89.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23155, 29 September 1938, Page 17
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