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|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>

|Headline=Canton Illinois Bans Sunday Cricket, Cat, Town-Ball, Etc. <p>"any person who shall on the Sabbath day play at bandy, cricket, cat, town-ball, corner-ball, over-ball, fives, or any other game of ball, in a

...oung men are expert in a variety of games at ball - such as cricket, base, cat, football, trap ball . . . ," is the first known book reference to the play |Comment=<p>The cited lines were from an appendix to Smith's book on American games, written by Samuel Woodworth c. 1835. ][ba]</p>

|Headline=New England Lad Recalls Assorted Games, Illicit Fast Day Ballplaying ...these were "base-ball," in which we chose sides, "one hole cat," "two hole cat," "knock up and catch," Blackman," "snap the whip," skating, sliding down h

|Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...k 1867. The listed games played in Suffolk include cricket, base-ball, kit-cat, Bandy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? N

...A very large proportion of the students participated in the sport; and the old residents will readily recall with what regularity. Fast day used to be de ...e 83. <b>Caveat</b>: The section in which this excerpt resides evidently games played half a century earlier, but other interpretations are possible.</p>

|Term=Cat (Kat) |Description=<p>For a recent description of Cat/Old-Cat, see&nbsp;<strong>Supplemental Text below.</strong>&nbsp;</p>

|Headline=Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games

|Description=The old-fashioned games of three-cornered cat, round town ball, long town ball, hat ball, baseball and many others were p

...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.</p>

...style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games</span> [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.< ...bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <strong><b