Word: winne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cory Winn's freshman team, which gained a 5-0 victory over MIT in its only start this season, will play St. Paul's here today. At a squad meeting yesterday, Charles W. Ufford, of Haverford, Pennsylvania and Weld Hall was elected captain of the 1953 team. Ufford, a former captain and number one man at Deerfield, won the New England scholastic championship last year...
...25th Kentucky Derby last spring, Hearstling Sportwriter Martene Windsor ("Bill") Corum gratified his readers by picking the race one-two-three-four. Hereafter they will have to depend on someone else for their forecasts. Easygoing, fireplug-shaped Columnist Corum was named last week to succeed the late Colonel Matt Winn (TIME, Oct. 17) as president of the American Turf Association and Churchill Downs, i.e.) impresario of the Derby...
...promoting and running the Derby. He will continue his syndicated column for the New York Journal-American, but readers will get no more of his spring racing columns. During April and May his typewriter will be covered; Bill Corum will be in Louisville filling the job that old Matt Winn had held for 47 years...
Died. Matt Joseph ("Colonel") Winn. 88, impresario of the Kentucky Derby, who ballyhooed what was once a pip-squeak. Dixie picnic into one of the U.S. racing classics (worth $100,000 to three-year-olds and over $8,000,000 annually to Louisville merchants); after an operation; in Louisville. A straight-bourbon man, Horseman Winn credited his longevity to the fact that he never drank until noon, boasted that after taking over Churchill Downs in 1902, he never placed a bet (although he introduced the pari-mutuel betting machine) or owned a horse...
Hughes, a small, steady player who this season won the number four position, has been playing tennis for Harvard ago. In 1947 he performed on Cory Winn's freshman team, while last year he played with the Jayvees...