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Show Dave Gidoon Has Dropped Over .aJIimdredTlipnsand Ms Season. RECOGNIZED AS TAB BEST INEQBMBD TUJEUWAX WYING Closing Season Said to Have ..Been disastrous for Plungers. Tribune Special Sporting Service. y,EW VOBU. Sept. 20. What chance lms the ordinary racegoer jrot for his money whoji an insider acknowledges lie is ?125,00p behind the amc on the venr? Tins question was :isked over nucl over again in the clubhouse at Grave-send Grave-send bv men vrho had heard Dave Gideon Gid-eon siruiiiiglv admit that he had dropped Sl'JSiOOD since the beginning of racing at Aqueduct Ia?t spring. ,,'Yes,'',J pnid Gfidnou to u friend to whom he was relating his woes, "it is (rue that 1 am behind-about $125.-OpO $125.-OpO on -the. season. A f, .a matter of i'ju-t I don't believe J. have had .more tliau half a dozen "vrinuing days this rear. " Had One Winning pay. "At the last' Shccrjshea'd" meeting T had -just one winning day. On the opcuing ilay X quit $300 to the good, but after that J didn't seem to be ab'e to .bud a -winner. JEvcry day it r;ts I he same old story. T didn't lose a rcat deal, it 's true, jtfy he.avjp.st Iwsi for any oue dav wns $3S00. and the lotal might have footed up $10,000 or 15.000. "And that Jias been the case iti nip all the year. I have had my usual sourcos Tof ' information, .but every linc J ha vis put a bot down aoinetuin.cr has gone wrong. Jf I win gel out -with less than $150,000 to -the bad on the year I will consider lnysolf lucky." "J Gideon can't bpa.t the races, it's time for me to stop trying,' said a uian who had Jtstenod to the con vernation. ver-nation. ' I don 't believe there -is a man in America who has better sounds of informatio.u or who is a. better j.udge. He knows every owner, trainer aa-.l joi-kcy on the track, own? racehorses biiusclf and .knows everything- that happens in the Tin?. ''With all .this .advantage lie con-fejsscs con-fejsscs the frame ;is top hard fo.r im, o I guess itvs up io nip to Joo.k for an easier game." Gideon's experience has boeu du-Ttiijratcd du-Ttiijratcd by nearly every other ulunger m the track. It has been a disastrous disas-trous year for ail of thorn. |