A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

AUTO RACING—PETER REVSON in a McLaren M16 won the pole position for the Indianapolis 500, outspeeding an early flyer, Mark Donohue, with a record qualifying run of 178.696 mph (page 34).

Donnie Allison, in a Mercury, beat his brother Bobby and Buddy Baker in a last-lap sprint to win the Winston 500 stock-car race at Talladega, Ala. He averaged 147.419 mph, crossing the line a length ahead of Bobby's Mercury.

BASKETBALL—ABA: The win-at-home pattern continued as Utah and Kentucky split a pair of games to tie up the championship final at 3-3 (page 68). First Utah won in Salt Lake, 137-127, as Zelmo Beaty scored 32 points. The Stars gained an early 11-3 lead and never lost it. Kentucky came back with a 105-102 victory in Louisville, with the lead changing hands into the last minutes. Cincy Powell scored 31 points for the winners.

BOATING—BILL WISHNICK of New York won an unprecedented third straight victory in the Sam Griffin Memorial Offshore Powerboat Race, establishing a record of 72.87 mph on the 51-mile oval course off Fort Lauderdale.

BOWLING—JIM GODMAN of Lorain, Ohio, handed previously unbeaten Don Johnson two straight match-game defeats to win first prize in the American Bowling Congress masters tournament.

BOXING—In a triple-header of closed-circuit television heavyweight fights, Olympic champion GEORGE FOREMAN scored a 10th-round knockout over Gregory Peralta in Oakland. Calif., JIMMY ELLIS earned a 10-round decision over George Chuvalo in Toronto, and ERNIE TERRELL continued his comeback with a 10-round decision over Luis Faustino Pirez in Chicago.

In London, Scotland's KEN BUCHANAN, the world lightweight champion, won on a TKO in the eighth round of a nontitle bout with Carlos Hern�ndez of Venezuela. A six-stitch cut suffered in the fight has forced postponement of Buchanan's scheduled June 9 title defense against Ismael Laguna in Madison Square Garden.

GOLF—Battling a stiff wind, SANDRA PALMER won her first LPGA tournament, the $50,000 Sealy event on the Desert Inn course at Las Vegas, with a three-under-par 289. Donna Caponi finished second at 291.

Rookie HUBERT GREEN, tied with Don January with a four-under-par 280 at the end of regulation play, won the $125,000 Houston Champions Invitational tournament on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

HARNESS RACING—The fastest pacing mile of the year was recorded at Liberty Bell Park in Philadelphia as MISS CONNA ADIOS ($15.80) won the feature race in 1:58[2/5]. The fastest trotting time was achieved by DAYAN ($4.80) with a 1:59[2/5] in the Erwin F. Dygert Memorial at Hawthorne Park in Chicago.