¶ Bobby Hull, 27: his 50th goal of the season, tying Maurice Richard’s (and his own) National Hockey League record, as the Chicago Black Hawks beat the Detroit Red Wings 5-4; at Chicago.
¶ Richard Petty, 28: the $112,000 Daytona 500 stock-car race; at Florida’s 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Driving a 1966 Plymouth with a special 550-h.p. “hemi-head” engine, Petty overtook Cale Yarborough’s Ford on the 113th lap, led the rest of the way at an average 160.6 m.p.h.
¶ Duke: an incredible 21-20 basketball victory over North Carolina in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s playoffs; at Raleigh, N.C. Hoping to upset the No. 3-ranked Blue Devils, who have averaged 86 points a game, North Carolina went into a deliberate stall, thus producing one of the lowest scoring games in years.
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