Clipping:A rumor of game throwing

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Date	Friday, July 19, 1889
Text	There has been another crazy explosion over in St. Louis and it has turned the Browns' crowd from a happy family into an aggregation of players who are fighting mad. No more absurd charge was ever coined than that fathered by the Post Dispatch last night, in which Arlie Latham and Charley King were accused of throwing games in the interest of the pool-rooms. Not since the days of Devlin and Hall have any bolder accusations been made. “Ribbie,” the wide awake second baseman of the Browns, is also made a party to the alleged crookedness. The story with all its wild improbabilities came out on the eve of the Browns' departure for Cincinnati, and a more incensed lot of players never registered at a hotel than those who arrived at the Palace this morning. Indignation was not confined to those whose reputations the Post Dispatch seeks to sully... St.
Source	St. Louis Republic
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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