A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

BASKETBALL—Surprising PHILADELPHIA and BALTIMORE both made the divisional finals of the NBA playoffs by winning three games and losing only one in the opening rounds. The 76ers took their third game of the best-of-five series when Wilt Chamberlain scored 38 points, blocked 11 shots and got 26 rebounds in a 119-112 win over Cincinnati. The Bullets, led by Kevin Loughery's 31 points, defeated St. Louis 109-103 in the deciding game of the Western series. LOS ANGELES lost high-scoring Elgin Baylor for the rest of the playoffs when he tore his left kneecap in the opening minutes of the first game of the Western Divisional final. But Jerry West scored 49 points and the Lakers beat the Bullets 121-115. BOSTON jumped to a 1-0 lead in the Eastern final by easily defeating Philadelphia 108-98, despite Wilt Chamberlain's game-high 33 points. In their personal duel under the baskets, the Celtics' Bill Russell outrebounded Wilt 32-31.

BOWLING—Left-hander BILL ALLEN from Orlando, Fla. won the PBA's $35,500 Insurance City tournament by defeating Nelson Burton Jr. of St. Louis 231-177 in the final match. A week earlier Allen beat Burton in the finals to take the Buffalo Open.

BOXING—In a championship boxing doubleheader at New York's Madison Square Garden (page 24) EMILE GRIFFITH retained his welterweight title with a 15-round unanimous decision over Jos� Stable, and JOSE TORRES became the new lightweight champion when Willie Pastrano was declared unfit to come out for the 10th round.

GOLF—SAM SNEAD, who will be 53 next month, won the Greater Greensboro Open for the eighth time and thus became the oldest player ever to win a major PGA tournament. Snead's rounds of 68, 69, 68 and 68 over the 7,029-yard, par-71 Sedgefield Country Club course gave him a 72-hole total of 273, five strokes up on Billy Casper, Phil Rodgers and Jack McGowan, all tied for second.

GYMNASTICS—The NCAA championship at Carbondale, Ill. was won by favored PENN STATE, with 68� points to runner-up University of Washington's 51�. Penn State's only individual winner was MIKE JACOBSON, who tied for first in the horizontal bars with JIM CURZI of Michigan State. Curzi also took the parallel bars title. The only other double winner was FRANK SCHMITZ of Southern Illinois who had firsts in free exercise and trampoline and a second in the long-horse event. Jacobson gained the all-round individual title.

HOCKEY—Second-place MONTREAL took a two-game lead over fourth-place Toronto in the best-of-seven semifinal series of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Bobby Rousseau scored the winning goal at 12:29 of the third period as the Canadiens defeated the Maple Leafs 3-2, and in the second game Claude Provost and Jean Beliveau scored on power plays to lead Montreal to a 3-1 victory. In the playoff between the first- and third-place teams DETROIT, the regular-season champions, defeated Chicago 4-3, on Norm Ullman's goal with less than five minutes to play, and 6-3.

The American Hockey League's regular season ended with QUEBEC (44-26-2) in first place in the East and ROCHESTER (48-21-3) the winner in the West. Center ART STRATTON of Buffalo took the scoring title with 109 points on 25 goals and 84 assists (most in the league), and GERRY CHEEVERS of Rochester was the league's top goalie.

HORSE RACING—Making his belated debut as a 3-year-old, BOLD LAD ($2.50), 1964's juvenile champion, won a six-furlong race at Aqueduct by three lengths (page 82).

Native Charger ($6.80) became the biggest money-winning 3-year-old in Florida when he added the $119,800 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park to his victory in the $143,600 Flamingo Stakes a month earlier. Ridden by John Rotz, Native Charger defeated Hail to All by a neck while Gallant Lad was third.

MOTOR SPORTS—The 191-mile Grand Prix of Siracusa (Sicily), an important warmup for the major grand prix title races later in the season, was won by JIMMY CLARK of Scotland, driving his Lotus Climax, in 1:43:47. Second place went to last year's world champion, John Surtees.