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T mm :"" ■ flmf 1 Ri- fWt *■* ■ and£ and0 iW- t ■i* j 1 j + j A MAN WHOSE MANAGERIAL ABILITY HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED AT VARIOUS AMERICAN RACE TRACKS a. MATT J. WINN. FAVORED by opportunitiea and always equal tn the master] of any situation that might present itsHt. it has Ik-cii given to Mat I .1. Winn in the course of a few years past to ascend 10 a position In connection with racing seldom ever attained. Mr. Winn was horn at Louisville, .lime 30, 1881, Lin did nm l eei iiie identified J with racing until I.mni. when he tnok 11 clerical piisitiun under the secretary of the Louisville Jockey Crab, nf which William I". Schulte was then president and Charles I. Price secretary. 1 1 was not mag until hi- executive ability be came manifest to all with whom lie came inm 1. ih. ril contact and he rapidly gained an lnri-111. He acquaintance with the controlling powers nf tin- turf at large, in lOOfi racing was carried on simultaneously over the two New Or lean- tracks of the Crescent City Jockey Club and the City Park Jockey Cmh and. quite aat-m ally, a 1 ruinous expense to both. Some decidedly stubborn men on* both sides were mied up in thi- rnciag war. but even their pugnacity was affected bj the looses Incurred in the whaler BMUting of 1808-07. The upshot of some approaches under liars of truce was that Mr. Minn was called down from Louisville prior to the beginning of the meeting of r.M»7 06 to straighten out the calan itoua complleaflona. This be did in masterly fashion. Re bronghl about an agreeanenl for a division of date-. became him-elt general manager of the affairs of both liaeks. wilh the entire a pi initiation of Iwitli organizations, induced them to use the sauna? staff ot racing oaVials. except in ihe case of the starters, and conducted the racing 01 1 liinhl.v over IhmIi tracks. So far ::s the start lag was concerned, il was a case of A. I.. Hade having already been en:;a!;e!l M start at iin Crescent City track and Mars tas-idy at City Park, aa these excellent officials were iv tatned according to their respective contracts and bad the doubtful prlvflege of layhag off in idleness each two weeks alternately. Mr. Winns already considerable reputation was greatly enhanced l y his sueeeaa at New Orleans and his services were now ursently called for at his home. Hire, for one n-.is.in and a..-ilier. racing had not done well 111 l.sii. Some sort of reorganlxation was in order and it was felt by President Hrainget and Others in authority that Winn was the man to do the reorganizing. The New Oil. -an- folks were loth to let hiin jio. bill at a meeting of the executive committees of the Crescent City ami City Park jockey cluba, held January 31, 190K, he was released in accordance with his request. He was already manager of the Umpire City racing at Tonkers, . v.. having atgned a contract for ffve years In lOOT. As soou as detail- were worked out lie now became manager of the fortunes of the New Louisville Jockey Club and has remained as such ever since 190s. to the profit ami satisfaction of all concerned, the general racing public included. To his duties already assumed li. presently added the responsibility of being manager of the new race track at Juarez and lias conducted its affairs excellently from the bagtantug of racing there. The Louisville smlni. meeting of 1908 was his first year there in control as manager. It w.-l- also the BBeetlng at which for the lirst time in I new order of thiiii:- tin- iniituels and auctions were used in betting to the entire exclusion of bookmaking. Mr Winn had been one of those actively Instrumental in securing the enactment of the law creating the Kentucky State Racing Commission ami in the measures leading to the ■ubetttu-tion of the new betting method In place of the dd Heme it was now up to him to prove the wi--loni and greater utility of the ninnui system. There was much downright hostility to the i.ew sys teni and great doubt on the part of otbera Inclined to 1m- friendly, it was iii« patrons of tar If who settled the matter triumphantly in his favor. A- s n.n a- they iiained an insight into its workings they took to it a- docks to water and as soon as that spring meeting was over it was -wn that the iniituels had come to Stay, That i- nm long ago, vet since then Kentucky racing has heen model 1:11 iiiir of all sport and no scandal, while the racing bodies have thrived 11s never liefoiv in their history. The [..-noma people were Intensely hostile at the start, hart the logic of agreeable events has changed all that and Bow they could not 1*» driven Hack to Ihe old ways. In bringing all this about he did not do all the work, hut he did a true leaders sharii. " " — ■ •+ + "
