A Roundup Of The Week's News

BOXING

Wallace (Bud) Smith, scoring with insistent left hooks, closed Challenger Jimmy Carter's right eye, survived savage 13th-round counterattack, kept world lightweight title by decision before home-town crowd at Cincinnati (see page 12).

Vince Martinez , still chipping away rust after return to welterweight title hunt, outclassed Lester Felton of Detroit in 10-rounder at Providence, R.I. for 16th straight victory.

Randy Turpin , England's former world middleweight champion, called it quits after unsung Canadian light heavyweight Gordon Wallace scored four knockdowns, knocked him out in fourth round at London. Retirement scuttled Archie Moore-Turpin light-heavy title fight proposed for January, produced Trinidad's Yolande Pompey as probable replacement.

Julius Helfand , New York's boxing commissioner, resumed probe into mysterious interior of Managers' Guild, questioned suspended managers Cus D'Amato ( Floyd Patterson), Bobby Melnick (Tiger Jones), Bobby Nelson (no boy). Trio professed ignorance of Guild workings. Said Melnick: "I know nothing. No one knows more than I do" (see page 13).

HORSE RACING

Bwamazon Farm's Jovial Jove sprinted to nose victory over E. Gay Drake's midland streak Swoon's Son in $58,425 Breeders Futurity at Keeneland, Ky.; Comedian Lou Costello's West Coast hope Bold Bazooka ran fourth behind C. V. Whitney's Career Boy in $10,000 Garden State Trial, as 2-year-old picture remained blurred (see page 19).

Wheatley Stable's stretch-running gray filly High Voltage won $51,850 Vineland Handicap by three lengths at Garden State Park, N.J., reinforced claim to year's 3-year-old distaff honors.

HORSE SHOW
Mexico's jumping team, cut from four to two by injuries suffered in auto accident, still performed brilliantly at Harrisburg's Pennsylvania National as Brig. General Humberto Mariles used novocain to relieve pain of cracked coccyx.

HUNT RACING
George T. Weymouth's 6-year-old mare Star Salome won 25th Monmouth County ' Hunt Cup over timber barriers, his 5-year old mare Chee Oaks beat 11th Gold Cup field over brush, as Wilmington, Del. sportsman swept features at Middletown, N.J.