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HOWARD LEWIS GETS A BARGAIN. P.ul-delphian Reported to Have Paid Only S3. 000 for Garry Heirmann and Ten Mares in Foal. l -Kington Kc March !. -la local turf circles it „ i.,,., It., I that ll.ward Lewis, of Philadelphia, ;,,i.| uolj .s.i.kmi for th. -t.illi..ii iarr. ll.irmann the dam if th ■ Am-. in. I the ten inure-. Including k-an Dertij wlunei The Picket, that he bought last from the estate of the late •| 1 1. -. i.i ai Louisville IMtl eii At. -. h. imIoi-i". and ,t I- the Opiaioa that be i .1 ;i big bargain. Vh the foals - to come, for I understand 4 in. mares are to produce thi- spring, will be worth as much aa that and probably more within a said Charles 11. Hughes, who in the summer ..i Hum. :i- the representative of Charles Head Smith, of Chicago, gave Jake blarkleln, of Cincinnati, flo.Ooo foi Jarry Herrmann and in March ol tool - Id Ulm I ■ Captaia s. s. Browa f. t K21.000. i,.iu Herrmann waa bred bj Kinsea Stone nf ., rgetowu. afid was foaled In is-,s- belni by th.-Kngllsb stallion Esber, out of Silk Gowa, b] I -leitow, -he being a atember .•; the Picayune family, juntl nlebrated though cordially disliked l.y fol-loweira of the Bngllsh fashion in t.l ••■.! lines and devotees of the figure system In breeding. In the -iimner of Is.-1 Garrj Herrmann, then tin- named was - !d for something like 50 to Louis . ii.ii of New York, and w i- - nt to Saratoga, b tried .ut and rejected bj bis i wner, wh put It m • Into a weeding-oul sale at Sbeepshead Bay that fall p Jake Markleia who bad been training for Air. Bell, it 1 1 i in f i al t 00. Shortly afterward at ■ sale here In Lexington h.s dam. Silk Gown, v.a-u. nil. red in by whit w.i- at that time known aa the Breeders Protective Association for 5, shipped to ansae point la the loath and -..Id without pedi grae or Ideatiacatioa to sosse plaatsr. sin- waa i garded by the commltta f breedera as anworthy to eoiiiiniie iii the ranks of thoroughbred ma though -he had already to her credit the stake win sjer Cyrus and the - I winner Little Grand and a producing daughter in Pert, the dam of Pettlgr»*w nnd Mountebank, the latter a winner for sere* -e;l-ollS. Mr. Markleia t ,k the brown cit to Lai m a, nam. il him for his friend and neighbor, Garry II. rr maun, the distinguished Cineinnatian who is at the head of the National Baseball Commission. In the winter be shipped Garry Herrmann to Memphis and at Montgomery Park the horse displayed the qualities thai stamped him as having been by nature Intended for a high class racer and presaged his bfil liant career as ■ two-year-old, when out of tweutj five starts ha won eighteen races, halag but one* unplaced, and earning approximately 7,000. Eight of these races, including the Hammond Stakes, be won for Mr. Mai 1.1. in before the sale to trainer Hughes for Mr. Smith at Hawthorne. June 2. 1800, .mil the other ten. Including the Juvenile Stakes, at Hawtb .rue. the Youngster Stakes at Harlem, the Champagne Stakes at Morris Park, and ■ race at a mile in 1:43 with 11« pounds up at Morris lark. be won for trainer Hughes. He started only twice as a three year-old for Captain Brown, winning at one mile and a sixteenth and being unplaced to Silverdale in the Premier stakes. Shortly afterward he went amiss and had to he P tired. About the time Captaia Brown paid 1,000 for this horse, an extended but unavailing a throughout the Southland for the recovery of his dam was made by the breeders who had thrown her into the discard. Jarry Herrmann had his home at Capt. S. B. Browns Benorita Stud until that famous turfmans demise, and for a couple of years afterward. Capt. Harrj Brown having bought him in at the sale in 1906 for 4,800 only to let him go in the fall of Bins to Peter Clinch, of St. John-. N. B.. for a paltry 00. I.nt then thoroughbreds were at their lowest ehh. Everybody was dejected and all breeders were Breeding out or letting •-. entirely in fear of being ■ m pletely swamped in iln- -lump that had come as i sequence to the passage of the repreasioaary laws in New York State. Garry Herrmanns breeding waa not fashionable enough to put htm in demand England, Prance or Germany, even had ins opportunities in the stud been greater and hi- list .i distinguished gel larger. lie had then only J. C. c.re. Penarrta and .Alfred Noi.ie to represent him n-qnite oal of the ordinary, the wonderful geldl il-. Governor Gray, having only been foaled that year. It w.ts the performances of Governor Gray aa ■ two-year-old :«id bis promise for the Derby* of l.Mt thai eaased the late Deitrich Meschendorf to send an agent t.. NW, Brunswick in the fall of loio ami al a COS! of ■ i.i ,000 l.rin:: the - Bsher and Siik Gown back hi Kentucky.
