A Roundup Of The Week Of June 20-26

BOATING—Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner skippered COURAGEOUS to a 7-1 record in the America's Cup Preliminary Trials off Newport. Enterprise was 4-6 and Independence 2-6 (page 18).

BOXING—Puerto Rico's ESTEBAN DE JESUS retained his WBC lightweight title by knocking out Vicente Saldivar of Mexico in the 11th round in San Juan.

GOLF—Masters champion TOM WATSON shot a fourth-round 69 to win the Western Open at Oak Brook, Ill. by one stroke over Wally Armstrong and Johnny Miller. Watson finished at five-under-par 283 over the demanding 7,032-yard Butler National Course, and the $40,000 first prize boosted his tour-leading 1977 earnings to $269,115.

Debbie Austin won her second tournament on the LPGA tour with a two-stroke victory over Judy Rankin and Jan Stephenson in the Hoosier Classic in Plymouth, Ind. Austin shot 70-70-67—207, five under par, for the $7,500 first-place check.

HARNESS RACING—WARM BREEZE ($2.60), driven by Dick Farrington, broke the world harness racing record for the mile by a full second with a 1:53[1/5] clocking at Golden Bear Raceway in Sacramento. The 4-year-old son of Bret Hanover finished 18� lengths ahead of the second-place horse, It's Only Money, as he eclipsed Jade Prince's 1976 mark.

HORSE RACING—THE MINSTREL, Lester Piggott up, won the Irish Sweeps at the Curragh racetrack outside Dublin. The 11-to-10 favorite covered the 1� miles in 2:31.9 to beat Lucky Sovereign by 1� lengths and earn $123,755. It was Piggott's fourth Sweeps victory.

Glenaris ($10.20), under Bill Shoemaker, won the $114,100 Hollywood Oaks by one length over One Sum at Hollywood Park. The Art Stollery filly was timed in 1:48[4/5] over a fast track for the 1? miles.

Sound Reason ($5.10), ridden by Robin Platts, finished half a length ahead of favored Northernette in the 118th running of the Queen's Plate in Toronto.

HYDROPLANING—BILL MUNCEY, 48, drove his Atlas Van Lines hull to his third straight unlimited hydroplane victory this season in the Gar Wood Trophy race on the Detroit River before a crowd of 400,000. Muncey averaged 111.883 mph in the 45-mile race.

MOTOR SPORTS—TOM SNEVA averaged 152.931 mph in a McLaren-Cosworth to win the Schaefer 500 at Pocono Raceway by 1.85 seconds over teammate Mario Andretti (page 52).