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Col. Matt Winn. WINN RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT Edward T. Fleming, Chicagoan, New Turf Association Director. All Officers and Directors Returned to Office In Annual Session of the Organization. The American Turf Association, owner of Churchill Downs, Lincoln Fields and Latonia, met as per its usual custom in the t T ..... , i, Congress Hotel apartment of Col. f D ri j t ne-hieCteCl j Matt Winn and re- President I eeced nat srmum? j gentleman presi-! dent dent for for another another I . . , . dent dent for for another another year. All other officers and directors were also re-elected, Winn heading the list as president; Stuyvesant Pea-fa o d y, vice-president, and Maurice Galvin, secretary- treasurer. The board of directors is headed by ex-Senator Johnson N. ., Camden, as chairman, and include Messrs. Winn, Pea- body, Galvin, Hen-niner ning Chambers. Chambers, . ; 1 ; 1 ning Chambers. Chambers, Lawrence Jones, A. B. Hancock, C. Bruce Head, E. J. Hughes, Sam Stone, Walter H. Girdler, C. W. Bidwill, Henry Gray, Bruce Campbell, C. S. Ellis, Donald McDonald, Lawrence Jones, Jr., and Edward T. Fleming, Chicago coal operator, who was elected a director to succeed John T. Connery, deceased. PERENNIAL PRESIDENT. This year marks the tenth that Colonel Winn heads the American Turf Association. As a matter of fact the association has known no other president. The current year is the tenth in the modern history of the association, although it originally existed in 1904 and then, as now, Colonel Winn was president. It was succeeded in seasons, following 1904, by the Kentucky Jockey Club and then in 1928 again became the association. During the many years of leadership under Winn, the Kentucky Jockey Club and Ameri-can Turf Association has operated many of Continued on twelfth page. WINN RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT Continued from first page.J the greatest tracks in American turf history, and for numerous seasons preceeding and. following the World War the organizations tracks formed, with those courses in New York and Maryland, the backbone of the countrys tracks. Colonel Winn was again the recipient of congratulations and, as before, seemed to enjoy having his old friends and associates as his guests. He leaves tomorrow to return to Louisville, where he will again take up the task of preparing to entertain the many thousands who will journey to Churchill Downs on May 7 to witness another renewal of the Kentucky Derby, Americas greatest horse race.
