Pro Cage Club Drafts Prep Player of '60

January 3, 1956

St. Louis -- The St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association, announced today they will select 6-5 Jack Pirrie of the suburban Maplewood High School as their first draft choice for the 1960 season.

The 16-year-old Pirrie was described by Coach Red Holzman of the Hawks as one of the greatest high school players he has ever seen.

Pirrie will be the-second-high school star selected under a new NBA rule that permits a club to draft a high school senior living in that club's territorial limits.

The first youngster selected under the rule was 7-1 Wilt (The Stilt) chamberlain, named by the Philadelphia Warriors last spring when he was in high school in Philadelphia.

Source: Associated Press,