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|Headline="The Popular Game" For Boys in NY State: Old Cat |Game=Old-Cat Games

|Game=Town Ball, Three Cornered Cat ...e students played town ball, three cornered cat and anthony-over, all ball games.

...to Gomme, a Lincolnshire glossary specifies that Bunting is a name for Tip-Cat.</p> |Sources=<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>., page 53.</span>

|Headline=Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All? |Game=Base Ball,Two-Old-Cat,Cricket

|Headline=Town Ball, Other Games on Sabbath Subject to Dollar Fine in Springfield IL |Game=Cricket, Old-Cat Games, Town Ball

...not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two Old Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p> ...elves in Bygone Days &ndash; Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them,&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</em>, Volume 54,

...: "After the hoop came, as now, the ball games, skip, one old cat, two old cat, hit or miss, and round ball. We made our own balls, winding yarn over a co |Query=<p><strong>Query:</strong> do we know the nature of the ball games of "skip" and "hit or miss?"</p>

|Headline=New York Children&#39;s Pastimes Recalled: Old Cat, Rounders Cited ...vacant lots, and nearby fields resounded with the immemorial games of old cat, rounders, hopscotch, I spy, chuck farthing and prisoner's base . . . . Th

|Headline=Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat ...l. Also [[<strong>De kat</strong>]], which Block identifies as English tip-cat.</p>

|Term=Trippit and Coit (Trippets, Trip-Cat) |Sources=<p><span>Alice B. Gomme, </span><em>The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</em><span> (Davit Nutt, London, 1898)

|Game=Two Old Cat ...erally, but as a reporter mocking the politician and making a reference to games the readers were familiar with.

|Headline=MA Gents Recall Boyhood Games in 1830s: Cat, Wicket, OFBB ...oubtless knew how to play one, two, and three old cat, and wicket, and the old fashioned kind of base ball when a foul was known as a tick; when a ball, w

|Headline=Young Andrew Johnson Plays Cat and Bass Ball and Bandy in Raleigh NC ...ent many hours at games with boys of the neighborhood, his favorite being 'Cat and <strong>Bass Ball</strong> and Bandy,' the last the 'choyst' game of al

|Term=Two Old Cat |Description=<p>From glossary of games supplemental entry on "Cat"</p>

...ook is called "original and unusual" by Block. For one thing, it includes two forms of trap-ball, the second being the "Essex" version referred to in the ...than rounders." <b>Note:</b> Does the book identify rounders with old-cat games, or does Block so that?</p>

|Term=One O’ Cat ...ugh a series of fielding positions with each out, until they become one of two batters. “An ordinary base-ball bat is used.”</p>

...wo holes are made about ten feet apart. A player on the out-team pitches a cat toward a hole, and its defender tries to hit it with his stick. He and his |Sources=<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>, pages 84-85.</sp

|Headline=Games Recalled at Phillips Exeter Academy ...Col. George Kent wrote this verse in response to an inquiry about student games from 1807 at Exeter:</p>

...n&nbsp;closest to base ball and cricket -- resembling the o'cat games with two or four or six players -- but it employs a&nbsp;section of animal horn, or ...an>(v. 1 p. 210) lists as the third meaning for "billet" the game of [[Tip-Cat]] and connects it to Derbyshire."</p>

...om were some of the leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..."</p> ...aii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat".</p>