Pentoss

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Game Pentoss
Game Family Baseball Baseball
Regions Britain
Invented No
Description

Pentoss was reportedly a form of ladies' cricket.

A picture in the W. W. Grantham collection at Lewes, England, shows a game seeming to resemble stoolball, but with wickets that look like round targets, held up by a post on either side of the 'target.'  The bats are like smaller stoolball bats.

A photographic image of a game in progress can be found with Google search of <"joshua biltcliffe" "ladies cricket">.  

There is no firm indication, at this point, of the time period of the geographic area of play.

 

 

  

 

Sources

Email from Anita Broad, of Stoolball England, 4/13/2013.

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