Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — FEAR PULLIAM IS ON VERGE OF BREAKDOWN [ARTICLE]

FEAR PULLIAM IS ON VERGE OF BREAKDOWN

Baseball President Refuses to Attend League Meeting. Chicago, Feb. 19.—Harry Pulliam’s friends believe he is close to a mental and physical collapse. He is president of the national league of baseball clubs and refused to attend the spring meeting. He sent this statement to the representatives of the New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and St. Louis teams in session at the Auditorium:

“I will not attend meeting of the National league. The reason Is that I desire to conserve my strength. There are a lot of cheap individuals who are built like Durham bulls who delight in nagging me to a point of desperation and then bawling me out at the top of their voices. They have something on me because I have neither voice nor inclination to reply to them.

“The trouble with the so-called magnates is that with the recent growth and popularity of the national game they have grown money mad. and want to throw sentiment henceforth to the winds. Their actions are just like those of the grasping millionaire race track owners in this country which resulted in killing American racing, the sport of kings. Racing flourishes in England, France, Germany, Austria and Russia simply because ft is properly conducted from the standpoint of sportsmanship. The baseball magnates will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs I. for one. am willing to let them alone.”