1968Year Elvin Hayes, the National Basketball Association's newest super rookie who may eventually join Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Elgin Baylor as a super star, showed 16,664 fans at Madison Square Garden last night that the Big E stands for excellence. Hayes Scores 39 Points as Rockets Turn Back Knicks, 113-107, at Garden

1985Year Three young playmates have been arrested and accused of stabbing and beating to death a a 9-year-old boy who refused to share his bicycle. Those held in the death of the boy, Anthony Darnell Wilson, on July 26 are two boys, 12 and 14 years old, and an 11-year-old girl. Boy, 9, Killed Over Bike

1949Year Thomas Dato, 9 years old, of 123 Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn, drowned yesterday in Prospect Park Lake, Brooklyn, while trying to swim ashore from a rowboat that went adrift with four children aboard at.7:15 P. M. Annie Dunn, 14, of 437 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, was taken to the Kings County Hospital suffering from exposure after swimming twenty feet to the lake's edge. BOY DROWNS IN PARK LAKE

1963Year The subscription sale for the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater's first season, at the ANTA Washington Square Theater, 40 West 4th Street, has been oversubscribed. REPERTORY HALTS SALES FOR SERIES

1965Year Friday Night (The River, Passport and Mary Agnes Is Thirty-Five), by J Elward Theater: 'Friday Night'

1938Year Candy store hold-up