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They were charged with assembling in Borestone Park, St Ninians, for the purpose of gaming in a pitch and toss school.
Older readers will remember "pitch and toss" (recorded as "pitch and hustle", from the 17th century), a popular form of street gambling that needed only a mark (to pitch at) and a couple of coins (to toss).
You'd get pavement dice games confined mostly to the Docks and old Tiger Bay but no district was without its pitch and toss school.
In 1909 Rudyard Kipling, while in Grangetown visiting his cousin Bert, a pastry cook with Bruton's the baker (he'd go on to start his own business) was taken across to Seven Oaks Park (The Tan) to see the town's biggest and best pitch and toss school.
Dickens might have been there too, cocking an eye at the locals - after all, in a Christmas Carol he labelled some dubious characters as "gents good for anything from pitch and toss to manslaughter." There's culture, innit.
THE age-old pastime of pitch and toss was a favourite game in schools and mining communities dating back to at least the 18th Century.
Pitch and toss is exclusive to iPad and can feature up to four players going head-to-head.
"Sunday was for pigeon racing and pitch and toss. For the pitch and toss - which was gambling - you had to have lookouts at both alleyways, looking out for the cops.
Pitch and Toss and Two-up are a couple of games of chance as old as the Australian outback but today's second npower Ashes Test match provides an even bigger gamble for both captains.
pitch and toss. You'd get pavement dice games confined mostly to the Docks and old Tiger Bay but no district was without its pitch and toss school.
Please remove your plimsoll from my threepenny bit.") Once those cries echoed in every corner of Cardiff - in Cyncoed, of course, they used half crowns instead of pennies - but where can you find a pitch and toss school today?
The phrase "Pitch and toss" is more than an Australian game of chance - it has more influence on English domestic cricket than any other factor.
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