ALL-STARS WIN BASKETBALL'S GREATEST GAME
By Leo Fischer
Chicago-Herald-American - Nov, 30, 1940

22,000 See Trotters Lose, 44-42, Crowd cheers for five mimtes after thrilling
Finish,

Svort history has e new and elamorous page today,

The greatest crowd that has ever seen a basketball game in the history of
the sport - approximately 22,000 - today was still trying to get back to normal-
cy after probably the most thrilling, most spectacular battle in fifty years of
basketball at the Chicago Stadium last night,

At the finish of an overtime period, the College All-Stars had won 44 to
42, and if there wes any one in the vast expanse of the Stadium who retained ay-
thing resembling sanity, he certainly wasn't among the howling, shrieking mob
that stood in its seats and refused to leave the place,

Five minutes after the game ended, they were still yelling - which may
give you an idea of how successful The Herald-American's first anmal All-Star
basketball game turned out to be. They knew they were going to see something
in the way of a spectacle - but even if one of Hollywood's most gifted scenario
writers had written the script, he couldn't have come close to what actually hap-
pened before the sell-out crowd in that Stadium last night,

STARS TAKE LEAD,

At the end of the first quarter the All-Stars led the Harlem Globe trot-
ters, world's pro-champs, 13-11, at the end of the first half the score was 20
to 20, At the end of the third period it was 30 to 30, With thirty seconds to
play in the second half, it was 37 to 37, Then Ralph Vaughn, Southern Califor-
nia'a great star, hooked 9 one-handed shot from the free throw line which ap-
parently won for the All-Stars,

But as the crowd rose to cheer for his spectacular shot, "Sonny" Boswell
of the Globetrotters let fly from the middle of the floor as the gun went off
and it swished through to turn 22,000 customers into revine maniacs,

The overtime requires more adjectives than this veteran of several thou-
sand basketball games has at his disposal, Boswell put the Globe Trotters a-
head with a free throw, 40 to 39, Ralph Vaughn again broke loose with his left
hand and popped one throush to vut the Stars in front, 41 to 40, Erwin Prasse
sank a free throw to make it 42 to 40 vith one minute to play, Then Lou Press-
ley again brought the crowd to its feet from one out in midfloor which tied it
again at 42 to 42 - and if vou think that this didn't send the crowd to delir-
ium, just ask one of the hoarse-throated svectators,

TIE UP SCORE.

One minute to play and the score tied!

The All-Stars took the ball, Carefully they passed it beyond mid-floor,
cautiously awaiting for the chance to shoot as the seconds ticked away, Then
suddenly Stan Szukala - DePaul's captain last year and co-captain of the squad
broke away at the right of the basket, He dribbled vast the guards, shot und-
er the hoop and caged a perfect two-pointer as he flew past. It was the win-
ning tasket, but the game wasn't over by any means,