Block:Tut Ball in Staffordshire on August 12 1902
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| Data | A young adult novel set in the Staffordshire potteries district described “tut-ball” as one of the games organized by one of the teachers at a school treat : “Another diversion which he always took care to organise was the three-legged race for boys. Also, he usually joined in the tut-ball, a quaint game which owes its surprising longevity to the fact that it is equally proper for both sexes. Within half an hour the treat was in full career; football, cricket, rounders, tick, leap-frog, prison-bars, and round games transformed the field into a vast arena of complicated struggles and emulations.” |
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| Sources | Anna of the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett, London, 1902, Chatto & Windus, p. 205 |
| Block Notes | Clearly, tut-ball was considered a separate game from rounders in this locale. The “five towns” referred to in the title are fictional stand-ins for the six towns of the Staffordshire potteries district. |
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