Show PULLIAM DIES AS RESULT OF WOUND President of National League Gives No Reason for foring Kill Killing Killing ing Himself t New H Tork July 29 9 Harry Clay CUy Pulliam t of the National League of base bue clubs died this morning D from a bullet Which h he be fired through his hia head with suicidal intent last night in hia his room in hi inthe hit the tIIe t New York Athletic club Broken in hi health from overwork in bis hia b bug fight fi ht to te maintain a high standard of baseball In a moment of mental tal aberration aberra aberration tion hia his friends sa say ay shot shut himself went w t to his hia room early last hut lutt night t and lying on a sofa fired a bullet Into bile Ms his h bead The ball entered the right ri ht temple fracturing the frontal bone tore tOn oat out the tb right eye and passed paged out at the left temple He lie was waa found lying near the telephone by a club servant it ho was waa a sent nt to find out who was trying for a tele telephone tel phone connection Tried to Telephone 1 I think he Ii struggled on the floor for two hours boun said Bald I Dr r T Hamilton Burch ami nd teat he was so overcome with the intense pain that he M b tried to get t to the telephone phone to send for me He lie probably St set the receiver off the hook book and then lost bat his biB strength entirely death the passing of OM ose of ot the most t interesting figures of baseball II Imbued with the idea that the thee e complete success l of baseball blueball rested on he often otten found himself opposed by some of his associates ates Worry Verry over bk uk troubles with the leagues leaders brought on o a nervous breakdown last hist winter and his hie hi temporary retirement Mr Pulliam will probably be burled in Louis Louisville ville Born in Kentucky Mr Pulliam was born in Ky ICy years ago and nd was successively reporter and city editor of the Louisville Lou Commercial president of or the Louisville baseball club secretary and treasurer of the club and pres president president ident of the National League to which office he waa was elected In InAs 1902 Ac As chief executive of the leading base bue baseball baseball ball organisation of the country Mr r Pul Pulliam Pulliam liam course sometimes sometime brought him into sharp conflict with the club proprietors Some oIne of Lese Uiese latter particularly oppose aa U excessively ively arbitrary the presidents Instructions to umpires immediately after Ii he be assumed med office to deal severely verely with withes es nt I f A sue soc caon of controversies bore hard on the presidents ts nervous temperament and at atthe atthe atthe the last lut league meeting in Chicago In hi February he showed signs of a break brak breakdown down doii do D Was for Clean Sport Pulliam wanted to make public tin tie names nama of the men who he be said Id tried to bribe the umpires in the last York championship game He had become Imbued with the idea that the league leue magnates were persecuting him and that unless the names of the alleged Ue ed bribers were made public the sport of baseball was au 11 doomed During the banquet which followed the directors meeting Pulliam suddenly rote rose roseand and aDd began a bitter blUer tirade against t the league Igue officials He lYe was quieted for the th time thus and his friends obtained for him an Indefinite leave T of f absence Pulliam left Chicago without hat or coat and next ap appeared appeared p in St Louis Louts where he announced his b hi engagement to a young woman of I that city Gerry Garry Herrmann followed him to St Louis Louia and took him south where he i made what was Wali believed to be a full re recovery recovery covery covel of his hi health When Pulliam resumed his active duties as head bead of ot the National League about a month ago a o he showed no signs II na of his long lont and friends congratulated him on his recovery |