Clipping:Rumor of players smoking opium

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Date	Wednesday, August 4, 1886
Text	Some of the Washington players are accused of being opium smokers. A Washington exchange says: “It seems rather queer that professional base ball players should be foolish enough to indulge in the pernicious and injurious habit of smoking opium. No man can 'hit the pipe' and play ball, too; he must give up one or the other. There are at least two members of the Washington Club who are regular patrons of a Georgetown opium 'joint.' One of them is a great favorite with Washington audiences, and if the fact were generally known that he is a slave to this vile habit we hav e no doubt that he would be driven in disgrace from the club. If these two men continue to indulge in this thing we shall deem it a duty to admirers of base ball to print their names. In the meantime if Manager Scanlon wishes their names for his own information we are prepared to furnish him with the proof.
Source	The Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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