A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

SPEED SKATING—DICK WURSTER of Ballston Spa, N.Y. edged favored Tom Gray of Minneapolis 21-20 to win the senior men's title at the National Outdoor championships on Lake Como, Minn.

TENNIS—Australia retained the women's Federation Cup when LESLEY TURNER and MARGARET SMITH defeated Carole Caldwell Graebner and Billie Jean Moffitt of the U.S. in the singles at Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne.

TRACK & FIELD—Twenty Olympic medal winners showed up at the Los Angeles Invitational indoor meet at the L. A. Sports Arena, but GEORGE YOUNG, an also-ran in Tokyo, was the meet's outstanding performer. He upset Olympic 10,000-meter champion Billy Mills and Gerry Lindgren in winning the two-mile run in 8:41.2. WYOMIA TYUS set a national record in the women's 60-yard dash (6.7 seconds), and RALPH BOSTON tied the arena mark set in 1963 by Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of the U.S.S.R. in the broad jump with a leap of 26 feet 5 inches. In other events, BILL CROTHERS of Canada won both the 1,000- and 600-yard runs, and DYROL BURLESON of Oregon overtook Cary Weisiger of North Carolina on the final lap to take the mile in a slow 4:07.2.

MILEPOSTS—HIRED: To succeed Wayne Hardin as head football coach at the U.S. Naval Academy, BILL ELIAS, 41, who compiled a 16-23-1 record in four years at the University of Virginia.

HIRED: JOHNNY PONT, after two years and a 12-5-1 record as head football coach at Yale, to take over at Indiana University, which hasn't had a winning season since 1947.

RESIGNED: From his job as wrestling coach at Pitt, REX PEERY, who over 15 years built the university's team into a national collegiate power and who last year served as coach of the U.S. freestyle wrestling team at the Tokyo Olympics.

RETIRED: From amateur competition, MURIEL DAVIS GROSSFELD, 24, winner of 18 national AAU gold medals for gymnastics and three times a member of the U.S. Olympic team.

RETIRED: LAURENCE N. (LARRY) SNYDER, 68, head track coach at Ohio State since 1932 and coach of the U.S. Olympic track team in 1960. During his 33-year career, he tutored seven Olympians and led his Buckeye teams to five Big Ten titles.

RETIRED: Y. A. TITTLE, 38, after 17 years as a professional football quarterback. Tittle, who was seemingly all through in 1960 after 10 seasons with the San Francisco 49ers, came back to lead the New York Giants to three straight NFL Eastern Division championships. Among the seven NFL records he holds or shares are most TD passes in one season (36) and most lifetime TD passes (212).

TRADED: ABNER HAYNES, the Kansas City Chiefs' running back who was the AFL's first Player of the Year in 1960, to the Denver Broncos for Linebacker-Punter JIM FRASER and cash.