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Sixty Play for Their Suppers

Salience Noteworthy
Location New England
City/State/Country: New Marlborough, MA, United States
Game Wicket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"On Saturday last New Marlborough and Tolland played a game of ball for a supper - Tolland beat. There were 30 players on a side."

Tolland CT is about 20 miles NE of Hartford, and New Marlborough MA is in the SW corner of MA, about 25 miles S of Pittsfield. Looks like this was a game of wicket.

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Pittsfield Sun, June 23, 1859. Accessed via subscription search February 17, 2009. 

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