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BURKE AND BLUMENTHAL QUIT. New York, September 21, So heavy and so persistent has been the winning of the public in the last few days that Eddie Burke and Max Blumen-thal, two of the foremost bookmakers have dropped out of the game. Neither of them will lay odds again until the opening of Belmont Park next month. It is estimated that within the-last four months tlie various plunging cliques of "Insiders" have taken at least ,000,000 of the bookmakers money