A Roundup Of The Sports Information Of The Week

SWIMMING—MIKE GERRY set meet records of 5:05 in the 500-yard freestyle and 18:13.2 in the 1,650-yard freestyle to load SAN DIEGO STATE to the National Collegiate (college division) title at Normal, Ill. California State ( Long Beach) finished second, largely on the record performances of GARY ILMAN in the 100-and 200-yard freestyle, the 100-yard butterfly and as anchor man in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

TRACK & FIELD—Three U.S. Olympic gold-medalists were defeated at the Knights of Columbus indoor meet in Cleveland. BILL CROTHERS of Toronto edged Ollan Cassell by two steps in the 600 with a time of 1:11; DAVE ELLIS, also of Toronto, came within five yards of lapping Bob Schul in the three-mile run (13:57); and JIM GRELLE of Portland, Ore. turned it on in the last half lap to pass Billy Mills and win the mile by five yards in 4:10. IOLANDA BALAS of Rumania and ABBY HOFFMAN of Toronto both set meet records—Miss Balas in the high jump at 5 feet 10� inches and Miss Hoffman in the women's 880 in 2:12. MEL PENDER, Paul Drayton and Willie Davenport, all U.S. Army runners, took first, second and third in the 50-yard dash. ERGAS LEPS, who holds the Canadian indoor and outdoor mile records, ran the 1,000 meters in 2:13.5, to win by eight yards over John Dunkelberg of North Carolina. RALPH BOSTON came in third in the high jump, which was won by GENE JOHNSON of Santa Clara, Calif. at 6 feet 10, then beat Willie Davenport by 1/10 second in the 50-yard high hurdles.

Robin Lingle of the University of Missouri, who ran the fastest 1,000 indoors this reason (2:07.3), and JOHN CAMIEN of Emporia State, who equaled his best mile time (4:01.7), were the only defending champions who repeated at the U.S. Track and field federation championships (the Journal Games) in Milwaukee. JOHN RAMBO of California State ( Long Beach) high jumped 6 feet 11� inches, exceeding the federation mark by 2� inches, and STEVE CARSON of Iowa Stale ran a section of the 600 in 1:10.6, also a federation record. In a time that was almost four seconds slower than the winning time at the NCAA championships in Detroit a week earlier. OKLAHOMA STATE's two-mile relay team set a federation mark of 7:31.7.

MILEPOSTS—NAMED: Commissioner of the newly organized Continental Football League, former U.S. Senator and governor of Kentucky, A.B. (Happy) CHANDLER, commissioner of baseball from 1945 to 1951.

NAMED: Old pro RICHARD (Pancho) GONZALEZ to coach the 1965 U.S. Davis Cup tennis team. Gonzalez was the coach of the 1963 U.S. team that captured the cup from its current owners, the Australians.

RETIRED: The New York Giants backfield star for 12 seasons, FRANK GIFFORD, 34, to devote himself full time to sports broadcasting. Gifford, who was an All-America halfback at USC in 1951, led the Giants in both rushing and pass receiving from 1956 to 1959.

DIED: JACK QUINLAN, 37, broadcaster of Chicago Cub games on radio since 1956, in an automobile accident near Phoenix, Ariz., where he had been covering the club in spring training.

DIED: AMOS ALONZO STAGG, 102, football coach for 70 years and pioneer of the forward pass and the T formation, of uremic poisoning at a rest home in Stockton, Calif. (page 11). As an undergraduate baseball pitcher, Stagg led Yale to five championships, and as an end on the football team. was named to Walter Camp's first All-America team in 1889. After turning down six offers to play professional baseball, he was invited 10 coach football at the newly founded University of Chicago in 1892. In 41 years there his teams won seven Big Ten titles and had four unbeaten seasons. When requested by the university in 1932 at the age of 70 to retire to a job as supervisor of athletic , Stagg moved on to the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., where he coached 14 more years. He finished his coaching career after six seasons at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania and held a supervisory job at COP until his retirement in 1960 at the age of 98. Stagg is the only person ever to be elected to the Football Hall of Fame both as a player and a coach.