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Interior Secretary Stu Udall scored a fine public-relations point at a professional basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Cincinnati Royals. Learning that the mother of Elgin ("The Rabbit") Baylor, the Lakers' 6-ft. 5-in. Negro star, worked as an Interior Department Mimeograph operator, Udall picked up the Baylor family in his official Cadillac and took them to the game. During intermission, Udall, who was once a star basketballer himself, tried a trial shot and missed...
...speed and agility to be a marvel were he half a foot shorter. St. Louis' Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in.) is quick and graceful, Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) is a defensive and rebounding genius, Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor (6 ft. 5 in.) combines the brute strength of a pro football tackle with the supple coordination of an Olympic gymnast, and even at the advanced age of 32 Boston's Bob Cousy (dwarfish at 6 ft. 1 in.) remains the playmaking wizard of the game...
...indeed. When the game began, Robertson looked like the most seasoned pro on the floor. He kept star teammates such as Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor and St. Louis' Bob Pettit running at top speed with a series of pinpointed passes that set up easy baskets. In the very first period, Robertson himself scored 13 points-hitting on all five of his shots from the floor -to lead the West to a 47-19 lead that made inevitable his team's final victory...
Robertson, the ace rookie from Cincinnati, and veterans Pettit and Lovellette from the St. Louis Hawks, took up the attack that didn't give the favored East a chance. In the first quarter alone, Robertson scored 13 points, Pettit 9, Lovellette 8, and Baylor...
Pettit was the game's leading scorer with 29 points, while Robertson, voted the most valuable player, had 23. Lovellette had 21. Baylor was withdrawn from the game after eight minutes and was used intermittently, winding up with 15 points...