A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

BASKETBALL—Eastern Leader PHILADELPHIA (49-8) dropped successive games to the Lakers and the Warriors on the West Coast but the 76ers finally halted their slight skid—four losses in five games—by beating both teams in return matches. BOSTON (42-13) had its 11-game winning streak stopped by the Hawks 131-113 but three victories during the week brought the Celtics to within 6� games of the 76ers. NEW YORK (28-31) moved back ahead of CINCINNATI (24-30) in the race for third place as the Knicks routed the Hawks, then took two of three from the Pistons, while the Royals, after beating the Bullets, lost three in a row. Last-place BALTIMORE (13-46) finally broke a seven-game losing streak with a 109-99 victory over the Royals but lost Don Ohl, the team's leading scorer, for the rest of the season because of a knee injury. In the West SAN FRANCISCO (36-22) split six games, including a 137-120 win over the 76ers as Rick Barry (page 32) scored 49 points and a 49-point loss to the Lakers when star rebounder Nate Thurmond was out with a strep throat. ST. LOUIS (26-31) Player-Coach Richie Guerin scored 41 points in the big victory over the Celtics, and for the week the Hawks won three of five to trim the Warriors' lead to 9� games. LOS ANGELES (23-33) split four games; CHICAGO (23-37) dropped two of three and DETROIT (22-35) three of five.

BOWLING—CARMEN SALVINO of Chicago won the $10,000 first prize in the St. Paul Open as he rolled a 211 to beat Johnnie Guenther of Seattle by eight pins in the title game.

GOLF—TOM NIEPORTE, a 37-year-old father of seven expecting an eighth, who is a club pro on Long Island, N.Y., birdied the 90th and final hole to beat Doug Sanders by one stroke—349-350—and win the $17,600 first prize in the Bob Hope Desert Classic in Palm Springs, Calif.

HOCKEY—CHICAGO (28-11-7) made it 11 games without a loss by beating the Bruins twice and tying the Canadiens 3-3, and upped its lead to 10 points. Second-place NEW YORK (23-16-7), after losing four of its previous five games, returned from five days off and defeated both the Bruins and the Maple Leafs. MONTREAL (20-19-6) had a 1-1-1 week; TORONTO's (17-20-8) losing streak reached nine with two more defeats; and DETROIT (19-24-3) won two games and moved within one point of the Maple Leafs. BOSTON (12-29-7) remained firmly mired in last place after three straight losses.

HORSE RACING—REFLECTED GLORY ($10), owned by Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs and trained by her husband Hirsch, closed strongly to nip favorite Bold House by a neck in the $34,850 Bahamas Stakes at Hialeah.

MOTOR SPORTS—FERRARIS finished one, two, three in the 24-hour Continental Road Race at Daytona Beach and took a step toward regaining the world championship they lost last year to the Ford Mark IIs (page 22).

SKING—GUY P�RILLAT of France easily won the combined championship of the international skiing meet at Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, taking the slalom and the giant slalom.

Jimmy Heuga of Tahoe City, Calif. and SUZY CHAFFEE of Rutland, Vt. gained the combined titles at the Mt. Werner Ski Classic in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

TENNIS—DENNIS RALSTON of Bakersfield, Calif. lost his first match as a professional to another new pro, FRED STOLLE of Australia, in straight sets in Brisbane, Australia. In his second pro match, however, Ralston beat Stolle 7-9, 6-3, 6-2 in Sydney.

Charles Pasarell, of Santurce, Puerto Rico, third-seeded, upset top-seeded Arthur Ashe in straight sets, 6-3, 8-6, and won the Fidelity Bankers Invitational Tennis Tournament in Ashe's home town of Richmond.