A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

BASKETBALL—LOS ANGELES clinched the NBA's Western title with a 115-93 win over the Warriors in which Jerry West scored 33 points and Elgin Baylor 32. And just in case there were any doubts left, they finished with a 4-1 week. ST. LOUIS won three of four and looked safe in second place, 5� games ahead of third-place BALTIMORE, which lost three games out of five. DETROIT extended its losing streak to six straight with three more, and SAN FRANCISCO, with four defeats, improved everyone else's record. BOSTON lost once to the Royals, but won the three games it needed to break its own 1961-62 mark for wins in one season (60). With their 61-17 won-lost record, the Celtics were 15 games in front of second-place CINCINNATI, 2-1 for the week, and 21� games ahead of PHILADELPHIA, which was one for four. NEW YORK equaled its best week of the season—three wins, one loss.

BOATING—William Snaith's 50-foot yawl, FIGARO, needed only an eighth-place finish in the Nassau Cup race to gain the Southern Ocean Racing Conference championship. She won the event, however, in a corrected time of 3:21:07, thus taking the title and becoming the only craft to win two SORC races this season.

BOWLING—The $5,000 first prize in the PBA's $28,500 Madison Open went to EARL JOHNSON of Minneapolis, who defeated Nelson Burton Jr. of St. Louis in the final 235 to 213.

BOXING—A scheduled 10-round middleweight bout between Former Champion DICK TIGER of Nigeria and Argentinian Juan (Rocky) Rivero at New York's Madison Square Garden was stopped at 1:39 of the sixth after Tiger had battered the flabby Rivero al will in every round.

Middleweight contender RUBIN (Hurricane) CARTER won a scheduled 10-rounder over Harry Scott of Britain in London's Royal Albert Hall by a TKO, when the close fight was stopped after 1 minute and 15 seconds of the ninth round. The victory was Carter's 21st in 27 fights.

In his first fight since retiring six years ago, Former Featherweight Champion WILLIE PEP, 42, won an eight-round decision over Hal McKeever in Miami. His record now stands at 221 victories in 232 fights.

FENCING—Pennsylvania won top honors in the �p�e and foil competition and New York University in the saber, but COLUMBIA gained the three-weapon title at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association's championship competition in New York with an overall accumulation of 71 points to NYU's 68 and Penn's 65.

GOLF—DOUG SANDERS followed his victory in the Pensacola Open one week ago with another in the $70,000 Doral Invitation in Miami. Two strokes behind Bruce Devlin al the beginning of the final round, he caught up with birdies on the first two holes and finished with a 274, the winner by one stroke.

Howell Fraser, 25, of Panama City, Fla., who joined the pro tour last November, won his first championship—the Puerto Rico Open in Dorado, P.R. He sank a five-fool putt on the final hole, giving him a one-over-par 73 and a 288 total.

HOCKEY—DETROIT lost one to the Can adieus 4-2, and the Red Wings' big seven-game winning streak went down the drain. But the Wings won three overall and moved into first place, two points ahead of CHICAGO (1-1-0). MONTREAL won two. lost one and hovered one point behind the Black Hawks in third. TORONTO dropped three straight and sat all alone, nine points behind the Canadiens and 17 ahead of fifth-place NEW YORK (0-1-1). BOSTON (1-0-1) (tried a rookie goalie, Jack Norris, and he shut out the Maple Leafs 2-0.