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NOTES OF THE TURF Montgomery and Tony Faust have been declared from the Excelsior Handicap HandicapLucky Lucky Baldwin Is a dally visitor at Oakland though he finds it hard to get around aroundSteve Steve Conroy assistant to starter Jake Uollman at Ixjxiiigton is schooling the twoyearolds there thereThomas Thomas Welsh Is training John E Maddcns two yearolds which until recently were In charge of A J Joyiier JoyiierW W W Finn lias sold St Avon to G C Turpin wlio intends to run him in the Denver Derby The price was 2000 2000The The funeral of Mrs Thomas II Strahan wife of the superintendent of the Benning track was held in Washington Wednesday WednesdayJockey Jockey Mandcrs has been reinstated and will ride during the rest of the Oakland meeting He was suspended at Seattle last summer summerCol Col Jim Young who was for some time the man ¬ ager of the Latonia Jockey Club is now at the head of a big hospital enterprise In Charleston W Va VaJockey Jockey Thompson who has a record as a cross ¬ country rider In Ireland is spending the season in America and may be seen In some of the steeple ¬ chase races in the cast He is a brother of A Thompson a successful English rider riderGeorge George Hill brother of Charles Hill manager of Clarence H Mackeys Kingston Stud has abandoned his idea of going to the Argentine Republic as a trainer He recently arrived in New York after having gone as far as Havana before changing his mind