A Roundup Of The Week Aug. 16-22

BOWLING—GARY SKIDMORE beat top qualifier Mike Aulby 218-204 to win his first PBA title, a $110,000 event in Austin, Texas.

BOXING—WILFREDO GOMEZ retained his WBC super bantamweight title in San Juan, Puerto Rico with a seventh-round TKO of Roberto Rubaldino.

GOLF—LANNY WADKINS fired a final-round 65 for a 15-under-par 273, one shot ahead of Tom Kite, to win a $350,000 PGA event in Grand Blanc, Mich.

JoAnne Carner won a $150,000 LPGA tournament in Shaker Heights, Ohio by shooting a four-under-par 284, five strokes better than Ayako Okamoto. The victory, her 35th on the tour, makes Carner eligible to become the 10th inductee of the LPGA Hall of Fame.

Juli Inkster won her third consecutive U.S. Women's Amateur Championship, beating Cathy Hanlon 4 and 3 in Colorado Springs (page 56).

HARNESS RACING—TRENTON, driven by Tom Haughton, broke Genghis Khan's 2-week-old world race record in the mile pace by one-fifth of a second, clocking a 1:51[3/5] in winning the first heat of the Review Futurity at the Illinois State Fairgrounds.

HORSE RACING—RUNAWAY GROOM ($27.80), ridden by Jeff Fell, covered the mile and a quarter in 2:02[3/5] to beat Aloma's Ruler by three-quarters of a length and win the $221,500 Travers Stakes at Saratoga (page 18).

Higheasterjet ($6.60), W.R. Hunt up, beat Rule the Deck by a length to win the $966,120 All-American Gold Cup for 4-year-old quarterhorses at Ruidoso Downs, N.M. The gelding covered the 440 yards in 21.56.

MOTOR SPORTS—BOBBY ALLISON, driving a Buick, took over the lead in the NASCAR Grand National points race with a�-length victory over Richard Petty, in a Pontiac, in a 400-mile event in Brooklyn, Mich. Allison averaged 136.454 mph on the two-mile Michigan International Speedway.

SOCCER—For 9,731 Canadian fans, it was like watching U.S. TV: not much drama, but plenty of action. Going into the season finale against Tampa Bay, the Toronto Blizzard trailed Tulsa by nine points in the race to avoid the eighth of eight playoff berths—and the modified rapture of meeting Eastern Division and league point champion New York in the first round of postseason play. Under the NASL's not uncomplicated scoring system, Toronto needed nine points, the maximum possible, to bump the Roughnecks from the seventh spot. But the Blizzard, not satisfied with mere points, produced a flurry of nine goals, the most scored in a game by any NASL team all season, to the Rowdies' paltry pair. Neill Roberts, a former Rowdy, and Ace Ntsoelengoe, who played up to at least one of his names, each scored three goals and two assists. So the Roughnecks will put their good name on the block at New York, where the Cosmos went 15-1 this season, while the Blizzard piles into Seattle, which muscled into first in the Western Division and second in the league point standings on the strength of a 1-0 defeat of Portland. Fort Lauderdale, which clinched the South in a 2-1 victory over the shorthanded, aptly named Rowdies (Defender Refik Kozic was ejected), meets No. 6 qualifier Montreal, 3-1 winners over listless New York. The fourth playoff match unites San Diego and Vancouver, Pacific Coasters but potential champions all the same.