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Two Wicket Groups Vie in Litchfield CT

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Pre-modern RulesPre-modern Rules
Location
City/State/Country:	Litchfield, CT, US
Modern Address
Game	WicketWicket
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	UnknownUnknown
Holiday
Notables
Text	"That Game of Wicket, Between the two Branches of Bantam Players (the Factory and Up-Town Branches,) came off on the Public Green in this Village, on Saturday last, with the following result" [In three innings, the score was Factory Branch 141, Up Town Branch 111.]
Sources	Litchfield Republican, July 8, 1852, page 2.
Warning
Comment	Edit with form to add a comment
Query	What were "bantam players?" Does the term suggest the ages of the players? Edit with form to add a query
Source Image	[[Image:\|left\|thumb]]
External Number
Submitted by	Brian Turner
Submission Note	Letter of 9/20/2014
Has Supplemental Text

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 |State=CT
 |City=Litchfield
 |Game=Wicket,
 |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
 |Age of Players=Unknown
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 <p>[In three innings, the score was Factory Branch 141, Up Town Branch 111.]</p>
 |Sources=<p><em>Litchfield Republican</em>, July 8, 1852, page 2.</p>
+|Query=<p>What were "bantam players?"&nbsp; Does the term suggest the ages of the players?</p>
 |Submitted by=Brian Turner
 |Submission Note=Letter of 9/20/2014