Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 22, 1954

¶ 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.

¶ 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. ¶ 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.

¶ 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. ¶ 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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