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Game	Whacks
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	London, England
Regions	Britain
Eras	Predecessor, 1800s
Invented	No
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Description	In Gomme's 1898 survey, she includes the following sentence in an account of the game of waggles: "A game called 'Whacks' is played in a similar way [to that of Waggles, a form of tip-cat] -- London streets."
Sources	See  Alice Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (New York; Dover, 1964 – reprinted from two volumes printed in 1894 and 1898), page 329.   Gomme cites her source as F. H. Low, Strand Magazine, November 1891.
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Comment	A 2017 web search for <whacks london street game> returns only the Gomme source. Edit with form to add a comment
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