Monday, Feb. 22, 1954

Scoreboard

P: At Greenville, S.C., Furman University's Franklin Delano Selvy, who already holds the three-season basketball scoring record, made two more major college records in one prodigious performance. Playing against minor-league Newberry College, 6 ft. 3 in. Forward Selvy, who shoots his high-arcing baskets with ambidextrous ease, scored an even 100 points as Furman won, 149-95. Old single-game record: 73, set by Temple's Bill Mlkvy in 1951. In addition, Selvy brought his career total to 2,197 points--43 more than the record set by Jim Lacy of Loyola College, Baltimore, in 1949.

P: At Columbus. Ohio, Hawaii's Ford Konno, freewheeling free-style swimmer for Ohio State, set a new world record for the 220-yd. distance, 2:04.8, breaking the record set by Australia's John Marshall in 1950 by seven-tenths of a second. P: At Davos, Switzerland, Russia's Boris Shilkov became the first man from his country ever to win the European speed skating championship, edging Norway's famed Hjalmar Andersen, 198.058 points to 198.383.

P: In Manhattan, a buff-colored two-year-old cocker spaniel, Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine, owned by Mrs. Carl E. Morgan, became the first of his breed since famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. P: New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student, ran the distance in 4:04.4 in Auckland.

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