Pitch and Toss

William Robins, Edward Wellard and Herbert Barton three lads charged with playing pitch and toss in Bowling Green lane on Sunday last were admonished and dismissed on paying the costs. Pitch and Toss a game in which coins are pitched at a mark the player getting nearest having the right to toss all the other’s coins in the air and take those that come down with heads up. Hence to play pitch and toss with one’s money prospects etc. is to gamble recklessly.