The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
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 Ioulsvlile, xy., April ee-(upl- A pair of pl eroing blue eyes looked ahoad today through the dusty pall of gl0om which hEs slowly been set- tlinR over Che world Of sports and thoy found no reasons tor Mi8giv- ings. Col. Matt Winu, Che dean og tho Downs, believes every cloud has Q silver lining end. maybe, soSne- times even Q lining ck gold.
 He is Q fabulous old gentleman tho colonel. Ha is heading towards 0l and Co say that his looks belle hia years is an unterstatement. He has most ct hin teeth, some of hig hair and au tho wisdom youu ever find in ono head. He has something cleo, too. He hos vndaunted faith h what he says is tho greatest na- ton Of all.
 today, his spacious box cverhanglng
 I paid e visit Co colonel Winn tho chaik~stripe finish line of Amer iea's favorlte race course, and once ngaia I was convinced that here was my favorite sportsman and my favorite man. For the colonel, who should Do An advocate Of yester- day, is strictly Q man ot tcEnor- rows.
 'son,e he said as tho bright Ken- lucky sun outlined the faint stripes in his dark blue suit, "y've been through four wars, I was born an the first year Of the Civil War, I have weathered two others and now I'm in my fourth, And tho one thing I have learned is that you should never sell America short nor Alnerica's love of sport short.
 "You take this race track. Now, I'm not talking about Saturdays derby, because Saturdays derby will be the biggest Of oil. I thought my dream of 100000 people would come true last year but there were only e6,000. But ! know my dream will come true this year because we can't i'll the demands we have had for tickets-froln 50 cent tickets to 4l26 tickets.
 ITO me, this derby Is already his- tory. It is the 1olS derby am planning now. And do you know what I'll tell you this mlnutep Son, I'll promise you the teAS derby will be even bigger than this one. Cas- oline s Shortages9 Tire scarclties9 America can take them in stride. America will come here and Amer. ica will 90 other .places-iS America is forced t0 walk"
 The colonel set there, then, and he turned his memory back almost 90 years to the day he was operat. Ing Q race track In Juares, Q hedge-' hop across the border in Mexico. In these days, he said, there was O revolution fought every year, there were raging fevers and there were oil conceivable sorts of setbacks. But evry day the JuraB track had Q crowd.
 Men, women and children flocked to Juarez inu those days and they flock to Churchill Down these days" he explained, Consider the weather we have ha in previous years. Con- slder the conditions VIC arc under going this year. Why, shucks, son, as long as people will turn out like this for tho derby there isn't any, body in the world can beat them."
 Mere Than His Share
 Old Matt has done everything he can to assure himself that nobody in the world can beat them. He has written Churchill Down down for S60,000 worth of defense bonds, he has contributed heavily to local charities and he has shucked out e60,000 of the derby day profits to the Red Gross. And, in his heart he doesn't think he has done enough.
 we aren't very rich here at Churchill Downs," he said, because we run what amounts to Q one.day meeting. But I couldn't sit back like SO many of those race track owners and just try to hold what I had. Those men don't realize there is Q war being fought. Else, they didn't 60 through what I went through in the big floods we had here c few years ago.
 "Wllen Kentucky had those floods, the Red Cross didn't ask any ques. ttons. They came in and with them they brought food and bandageS and money. They took care of al. most 1000 refugeS here at our track and they didn't ask @ nickel in return. I did heap of thinking some day you are going to help when I saw that and ! said, Matt, those people continue their work"
 That some day is Saturday. He really doesnt make much money here at Churchill Downs, the colonel doesn't. But to date he has glven more Of what he has than any race track operator in the United stateG He has given from his heart, but he has given from wallet, too. So can you wonder why I'm hoping that this is his biggest derby Of all?