Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 22, 1954

¶ In St. Petersburg, Fla., Outfielder Bobby Thomson of the Milwaukee Braves made a hard and costly slide into second while trying to break up a Yankee double play. His spikes caught in the dirt, his right ankle broke in three places, and Thomson was lost to the Braves for at least two months.

¶ In Sydney, Australian Sprint Champion Hector Hogan, 22, raced 100 yards over close-cropped turf in 9.3 seconds to equal the world record set (on cinders) by California's Mel Patton in 1948.

¶ The four-minute mile will be run this year, predicted record-holding Miler (4:01.4) Gunder Hägg of Sweden. All that's necessary is that the right runners meet on the right track. "You need a small stadium. That helps block the wind . . . And above all, the runner should not be psychologically tied down. He shouldn't be afraid of the mighty four-minute mile . . . In a four-man field, with maybe one pacer for the first quarter, you can stretch out and go, smoothly and without interruption." Hägg's candidate to turn the trick: Britain's Roger Bannister, "because he has the brains."