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SUPER-ULTRA CAGE BATTLE IS CLASSIC
By Warren Brown

CHICAGO HERALD-AMERICAN, Nov. 30, 1940----
Basketball's big league came to Chicago last night,

Basketball at its biggest, basketball at its best, basketball--as con-
quering Collegiate All-Stars and clever Harlem Globe Trotters played it that
supplied, in this one man's opinion at. least, the superlatively exciting compe-
tative spectacle encountered along a well rounded sport line in more then a
quarter of a century.

Small wonder, then, that basketball's greatest crowd in all history is
all agog today, and can hardly wait for the renewal of this great spectacle, in-
augurated by The Chicago HERALD-AMERICAN at the Chicago Stadium last night,

It left nothing to be desired, this show that began smoothly, took on
an entertainment momentum that increased as the mimutes ticked away, and finished
with a sensational climax that left 20,853 fairly limp from contemplation of it
all.

Elsewhere in these pages, you who were unlucky enough not to have been
present as the game took its place among Chicago's and the nation's sporting fix-
tures, will get the glowing details of the things that Stan Szukala of DePaul,
Erwin Prasse of Iowa, Ralph Vaughan of Southern California, Bill Hapac of I1llin-
ois, Bob Carpenter of Texas Teachers and all the other Collegiate heroes did,
and how they did it. You will read of the Globe Trotters! Bernard Price, "Sonny"
Boswell, Ted Strong and the other heroes of the world's professional champions,

We're going to be content to draw a picture -- inadequate as it will be-—-
of the pageantry, the excitement, the crowd,

Seems simple enough, doesn't it?

But where to begin -- will it be with that demonstration of more than
20,000 persons on their feet continuously in the final frantic minutes of play?
Will it be that mass production of basketball for all, when at the half time, as
the young legionnaires were beating drums and blowing bugles, while some beauti-
ful young ladies from Lake View were twirling batons---down from the upper reach-
es of the vast Stadium descended hundreds of yellow balloons?

Probably the proper procedure will be to take it all in stride, from the
spot-lighted presentation of the Collegiate mascot, Miss Dorothy O'Kelly, and of
the Globe Trotters! mascot, Miss Miriam Ali, to the last second of the last min-
ute as that more than 20,000 gave its last, its final, its all endorsing whoop of
sheer joy at having been part of a spectacle that will live long in Chicago's
sport promotional history. ,

There was the presentation of the Collegiate players, in the spotlight,
each lad trotting across the floor until all members of the squad, and their
victorious coach, Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg, had been introduced, Then came the
Globe Trotters, all together, entering the vast arena as they played in it, one
for all and all for one,

Then came the stirring rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by John
Pane-Gasser,