“Tut-ball” was played at the annual school festival in the small rural Shropshire parish of Chetwynd. According to a newspaper report, the school children were first served tea and then “after the repast, the girls formed several of those 'select circles' which are always to be seen at similar gatherings as the present; while the boys betook themselves to cricket, rounders, tut-ball, blind-man's buff, &c.”
Sources
Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal; Advertiser for Shropshire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and the Principality of Wales; July 25, 1866, P. 6
Block Notes
That tut-ball was played side-by-side with rounders supports the theory that the former was a bat-less game, similar to English baseball.
