MILEPOSTS
HONORED—Omar (Bud) Browning, Forrest De Bernardi, Joe Fortenberry, Robert (Ace) Gruenig, Charles Hyatt, Robert Kurland, Frank Lubin and Jack McCracken, former AAU All-Americas; by election to newly formed Helms Hall Amateur Basketball Hall of Fame, at Los Angeles.
DIED—Dick Buck, 27, daring but accident-prone California skier known as Madman of Donner Summit, member of 1952 Olympic team, national downhill champion in 1954, only recently named alternate for FIS squad, which will compete in world championships in Austria next February; when plane went into spin, plunged into Donner Lake, at Truckee, Calif.
DIED—Roy Worters, 57, pint-sized (5 feet 3 inches), quick-handed onetime NHL goalie for New York Americans, first to win both Hart (in 1929) and Vezina (1931) trophies; after long illness, at Toronto.