Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — World's Champion Sparrow Shot. [ARTICLE]

World's Champion Sparrow Shot.

Alf Donnelly, of north of town, is not only the Onion of Jasper county, but he is also, so far as any reports have been made, the champion English sparrow pot-shot of the civilized world and part of Texas. These birds were holding a convention Dr something at his place a day or two ago and a large number of them had reserved seats in the gallery, so to speak, on a telephone wire, where they were packed as close togethefas kids on Parcells’ merry-go round on free nights. Alf slipped arc und with his shot gun and on sufficiently high ground to be pretty nearly as high as the line of birds, and also slightly to one side, and then fft loose, raking them fore and aft. When he picked np the dead (birds that fell close enough to find them they numbered 26, as the result of that single charge of shot. Others fell farther away, All is confident, but he places his claim to the championship on only those which he found and picked up. Dreamland, sc.