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JOHN W. BAIN NEAR DEATH Noted Auctioneer of Race Horses Not Expected to Survive Effects of Recent Injury. LEXINGTON, Ky., April 28. John W. Bain, 73, noted auctioneer, brother of George A. Bain, also noted auctioneer, is near death at Good Samaritan Hospital here. After having sold the Holly Beach Farms two-year-olds and six from Samuel Riddles barn at Havre de Grace track Saturday, April 18, for E. J. Tranters Fasig-Tipton company, Mr. Bain returned to Lexington and on Monday, April 20, when stepping out of an automobile at a store he fell and broke his right hip. Within 48 hours his physicians noted that stomach and kidney ailments were threatening, preventing intended treatment of the bone fracture. His condition gradually became more alarming and yesterday his family was informed that his passing would be only a matter of hours. Sons of the late George W. Bain, famous the country over as an orator in behalf of temperance, George, two years older than John, was first to become an auctioneer. The brothers had been grocers in Lexington. Deciding to quit that business, they announced an auction sale, with George as auctioneer and John as clerk. From that beginning they became Americas most efficient criers at sales of thoroughbreds, standard bred and saddle bred horses. First George and then John worked in the auctioneer stand at the Fasig-Tipton companys arena at Saratoga and both wielded the gavel at the famous Old Glory sale of trotters, conducted by the Fasig-Tipton company in Madison Square Garden and in Armory A., New York. Both have made many sales at Durlands riding academy in New York. Both sold at Chicago as well as Lexington, Louisville and other points and one or the other was in the stand at many of the noted dispersal sales of breeding establishments of the last half century. John Bain had sales in California and Mexico.
