Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1916 — SILKY BELL IS BIG WINNER [ARTICLE]

SILKY BELL IS BIG WINNER

—• > Canton Horseman So Disgusted With Trotter Two Seasons Ago That He Sold Her for Song. Silky Bell lost one race this season, and the great Jack K. beat her in that. She had been a big winner but two seasons ago Gebhardt, a Canton (O.) horseman-who then owned her, was so disgusted with her that he said he’d never race her again and that anybody who wanted her coilld have her. She had made a mark of 2:15% on the half-mile tracks and then had gone lame. —He sent her to a Chicago sale and she was knocked down for $250 to George Twist, a Pennsylvania horseman, who now holds her at a price up in the thousands. , ,