The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Auction pitch \Auction pitch\
   A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of
   determining or "pitching" the trump suit. --R. F. Foster.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

auction pitch
    n 1: an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
         [syn: pitch, auction pitch]