GOLF BALL KILLS A SPARROW, THEN GOES ON

The Butte Daily Post, Butte, 1912-10-14, p.7

Dateline: Boston, Oct. 14.

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Wire item from Boston, Oct 14 1912. A golf ball driven from a tee at the Braeburn Country Club (Massachusetts) overtook and killed a sparrow mid-flight and continued true on course. Joseph Gould was driving from the seventh tee — a shot that had to cross a gully to a green about 155 yards away. The bird was flying in the same direction and swerved just a trifle, apparently when it heard the buzz of the ball coming behind. Killed instantly, fell a crumpled heap of feathers as though it had received a charge of shot. The ball was hardly checked in its flight and landed on the green not far from the hole. ARCHIVE SIGNIFICANCE. Pure period-color color wire filler. No Murphy or family content. Captured for its 1912 newspaper flavor — Butte papers carrying half-column items from Boston golf clubs three weeks before the 1912 Wilson-Roosevelt-Taft presidential election. The kind of soft news the Butte Daily Post ran alongside its serious coverage. Worth keeping for the book's atmospheric chapters.

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# GOLF BALL KILLS A SPARROW, THEN GOES ON *The Butte Daily Post, Monday, October 14, 1912, p. 7.* **Boston, Oct. 14.** — A golf ball, driven from a tee at the Braeburn Country club, overtook and killed a sparrow and then continued true in its flight. Joseph Gould was driving from the seventh tee. This shot had to cross a gulley and the green is about 155 yards away. Mr. Gould got off a good drive. The bird was flying in the same direction and swerved just a trifle, apparently when it heard the buzz of the golf ball coming behind. The bird was instantly killed and fell a crumpled heap of feathers as though it had received a charge of shot. The ball was hardly checked in its flight and landed on the green not far from the hole.