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TURF WRITER TO BE BURIED IN EAST. New York, August 31. The funeral of "A. B." Ancil Smith, an iluthority aud writer on the thoroughbred, took place yesterday. The body wa3 taken to Pine Lawn Cemetery, near Wyandancb, Long Island, and placed in a vault to await the return of his brother, E. C. Smith, from Muskogee, Okla., where he officiated as presiding judge. The deceased was contemporaneous in his turf work with Charles Trevathan, author of the American Thoroughbred, dedicated to the late William C. Whitney; the late Francis Trevelyan, a great English exponent of the turf, and was esteemed by all sporting writers as a careful and descriptive ob server. He was a product of the blue grass region of Kentucky.
