Block:Tut Ball in South Yorkshire on June 18 1859
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| Data | Attempting to retrieve a ball in a game of “tutball” almost led to a boy's death in the Hillfoot neighborhood of Sheffield, South Yorkshire. A newspaper reported that the boy, William Lamb, “was playing at a game called 'tutball' with several other lads, when the ball was knocked into the river at Hillfoot. Lamb went over the side of the river to recover the ball, and, overbalancing, fell into the water.” Fortunately, he was rescued from the water and taken to an infirmary where he recovered from the “asphixia” caused by being immersed. |
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| Sources | Sheffield Daily Telegraph, June 18, 1859, p. 2 |
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