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...entry of Chicago will give the league a five-team Western Division, including the St. Louis Hawks, Minneapolis, Cincinnati Royals and Detroit Pistons...
...Statistically the No. 2 passer in the country last season (132 completions in 232 tries), though ignored by All-America selectors, the University of Cincinnati's Quarterback Jack Lee proved what he could do in the eleventh annual Senior Bowl game in Mobile, Ala., completed 13 of 21 throws for 283 yds. and two touch downs, was unanimously voted the game's outstanding player as the North belted the South...
...rebounds, no slick-handed guard to feed him cripples. Compared to the giants he faces in the forecourt, he is only medium-sized (6 ft. 6 in., 210 Ibs.). Yet, when he gets his sensitive hands on the ball, no shotmaker in the N.B.A. is more feared than the Cincinnati Royals' Jack Twyman, 25, a lean-faced battler with an incredibly soft touch...
...University of Cincinnati, Twyman was still awkward enough as a freshman to be nicknamed "Footsie." But he practiced his soft shots so diligently that in his senior year he averaged 24.6 points a game. Turning pro in 1955, Twyman doggedly worked on his touch long hours after his teammates had quit, showed steady improvement every year, last season trailed only St. Louis' great Bob Pettit in total points (2,105 v. 1,857). One of the most respected men in basketball, the industrious Twyman is the Royals' player-representative in dealings with the owners and the N.B.A. When...
...Soft Touches. Without the massive Stokes (6 ft. 7 in., 235 Ibs.). Twyman has to carry so much of the Royals' load that he shoots all night long, has become what the pros call a "trigger."' But help is coming; next year Cincinnati will get Oscar (''Big O") Robertson (6 ft. 5 in., 198 Ibs.), the talented senior at the University of Cincinnati, who again this year is leading the college scorers (40.7 points a game), has a feather-soft touch...