Evening star., 1954-04-25
Bullets Claim SeIW
To Open NBA Draft;
Warriors Pick Shue
BY the Assoeiot0d Press


mans Frank Selvy, who led the
Nations major college cage
scorers with a Alt average last
season, was the No. ! choice in
the National Basketball Associa-
ton draft today.
Selvy was picked up by the
Baltimore Bullets. cellar-dwel-
lers of the Eastern Division, who
also selected Bob Leonard. the
star backcourt man Of Indiana,
as their second choice.
Another top choice was Gene
Shue of Maryland, taken by the
Philadelphia Warriors as their
first pick.
Elliot Karver Of George WASH
ington went to the Baltimore
Bullets on the 18th round. The
New York Knickerbockers picked
Don Lange of Navy as their
fourth man, and later added
John Clune, another Navy star.
SO seniors SclCCtcu.
The nine NBA teams grabbed
SO college seniors. Milwaukee
and New York took IL players
each. Baltimore, Rochester.
Philadelphia and Fort Wayne
selected IL apiece and Syracuse,
Minneapolis and Boston chose
10.
Milwaukee, entitled to the Sec
ond draft choice because OF its
last-place finish in the Western
Division, chose Bob Petit, the
Clio center of Louisiana State,
who finished second to Selvy
among the leading college
scorers. Petit has a 31.4 scoring
average.
Other first picks were:
Fort Wayne: Dick Rosenthal,
Notre Dame.
Boston: Togo Palazzi. Holy
Cross.
Syracuse: John Kerr. Illinois.
Rochester: Tom Marshall,
Western Kentucky.
New York: Jack Turner, West
ern Kentucky.
Minneapolis: Ed Kalafat.
Minnesota.
Kentuckians Picked Earlier.
Absent from the long draft list
were three Kentucky stars, Cliff
Hagen, Frank Ramsey and Lou
Tsioropoulos. All three were
drafted by Boston last year when
their class graduated.
The annual draft session,
which lasted two hours. closed
out the three-day convention
that resulted in the adoption of
two new rules designed to end
stalling and reduce fouling.
new playoff system and the re-
neWal of Maurice Podoloff's con-
tract as league president.
The draft selections:
Baltimore: Frank Selvy. Furman;. Bob
Leonard, Indiana: Werner klllen, Law.
goi Tsh sana Burt Bob sOHis Hsm r0fsS Ie9 81
Joe eehan1s6 S6n sesttls esosIss Hs51y ea1y
f1FoiA Eliot Karver' @ George Washington: -
Milwaukee, Bob P,.ton,d Petit Louisiana ana
r. sfa's Walt PoR Masssek Gksh2m Rn nno
carneS tn rSeds BfadIeg GsS ESSI Han Resy H
lane Joe Bertrand; Notre Dame; gerry gerry
Bomerschick City City College OF Ne" YORK;
ToI,;la Iol,l1
Larry Costello. Niagara, Ben Peters. St.
Benedict kan; Chuck NOBLE, Louis-
SHrsd 0ls Rgdy BTsdfs pEpo RoB BFsd sn peRo
state Bob Hodges. East CsTTG1lins: ,I Vince
Heta LyG9mPg PAM Ps oHars Bin ,ssIIe Sullivan
Dame: Arnold short. Oklahoma City
3 H Born Kansas MEL Mel ThemPGSSSn, sSn1gS: \:
icki.. Duke; Don ,Bielke. Valparaiso: r;Jyo.e Zoe
Larsen Brishsm Young; Forest Jack
son. Taylor Und.):
Boston Togo pslazzi phG saLH Holy naSbsn; Gf0ss;
schmidt st. Francis tBknD; Ron Perry.
State; Otto Krieghouser. Washington,
Young. Santa Clara; Tony Daukas, Bos-
ton College; Bill johnson. Nebraska.
Syracuse John ~ Kerr Tor dllin0iS; nG,aSns Dick
burgh, siena Norman, ,Pott, Wheaton
IllO: Gus Lovett Franklin g. Marshall;
Mel Besdin Syracuse: Fletcher johnson
Duouesne; Jack Davidson. UCLA;;
Kentucky Boris Mechanism, N. Y: u;
Lee Morton; Cornell Art Art sSGeiStrs, SGsaars
Jim Davis. St Johns tBkn); Bill Hull.
Utah. state: Paul Morrow. Wisconsin;
Roy Irwin. Southern California; Ed Par
chinski Fordham: John PaXson. Dayton.
New York: Jack Turner. Western Ken
tucky; Richie Guerin. Iona; Don Anielak.
Southwest Missouri; Don Lange. Navy;
Jesse Prissock Kansas state; Ron Rivers.
wyoming: Sollv Walker: ST. Johns
Duckham, Brooklyn Poly: John Clune;
Navy; Bob Walker, Oklahoma; Bill
Stickel. Hastings (Nebl
Minneapolis Ed Kalafat, Minnesota;
Al Bianchi, Bowling Green; Don Lance.
Rice; Gene Schwinger. Rice; Dick Ben
nett Minnesota; Nick Revon. Mississippi
Southern; Dan Finch Vanderbilt; Bob
Hopkins. Pasadena Junior College; Dick
Garmaker Minnesota; John Beaver.
Northwestern.