Block:Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on November 1 1879
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| Data | Stating that children should be provided space to play “tut-ball” and other games, a newspaper writer in Sheffield, Yorkshire, argued against the local Hallamshire council spending money to make a new park more suitable for adult sports: “I hope the Town Council will not think it necessary to spend money in levelling (sic) the land it is to acquire at Crookes moor. If it were to be a ground for cricket and football matches, no doubt a lot of money would have to be spent upon it. But I look to the children far more than to adults. For the children, a piece of ground, though rough, is sufficient, where they can fly their kites, and play little games at tut-ball, cricket, football, &c. If men were to have the ground for their matches that would mean clearing the children out of their way, which is far from my notion of what is right and desirable.” |
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| Sources | Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, Nov. 1, 1879, p. 6 |
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