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....

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