Squash and badminton were also in his repertoire, not to mention pitch and toss in John Joe's lane on many a summer evening. |
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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. |
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Squash and badminton were also in his repertoire, not to mention pitch and toss in John Joe's lane on many a summer evening.
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Australia's earliest settlers adapted pitch and toss, a game popular in both England and Ireland, in which players wagered on the toss of coins towards a wall. |
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Carnival attendees who took time away from the thrill rides and the pitch and toss games to witness stone lifting were in for some staggering sights. |
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If you can make one heap of all your winnings, risk it on one turn of pitch and toss, and lose and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss. |
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They devised relief from their isolation in the form of a game called pitch and toss, whose successor, two-up, is still played. |
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Pub games are still evident, including the local one, Toad in the Hole, which is basically a variant of pitch and toss with a piece of furniture as the target, and Paul McCartney has been known to drop by for a pint or two. |
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The couple divorced in 1965, something Carroll later attributed to his compulsive gambling, a habit he had picked up playing pitch and toss at the age of 11 on the streets of Belfast. |
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