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...Saperstein Perturbed...
Although this was only his team's first loss in the 25 game series the teams will play Abe Saperstein, the Globetrotter owner-coach was very worried. For he knows as well as anyone else that the people who filled up Boston Garden Monday night were far from avid basketball fans. It was a nondescript crowd, composed mainly of people who wanted to have a good time, see a few good shots, and which some fancy passing and dribbling...
Just before the intermission, to break the pace, the band selected three young ladies from the audience for a band conducting contest. A Miss Ceil Saperstein, from N.Y.U., led the group at a mad pace to win the contest. She was awarded a Band album despite ugly rumblings from the glockenspiel section, one of whose members wanted to be the prize...
...story purposes, the hero is Owner-Manager Abe Saperstein (played with plenty of locker-room lip and front-office charm by Dane Clark), the Chicago boy who pushed the Trotters to the top and still keeps them there. For spectator purposes, the real heroes are the famed hams of the hardwood themselves: Marques Haynes, who proves with his incredible dachshund dribble that if the modern basketball giant cannot be passed over he can be passed under, and Goose Tatum, who at one point, standing flat on his feet, wiggles so disconcertingly that an opponent stumbles and almost falls down. Best...
...Globetrotter coach, Abe Saperstein, told me three clubs came to him and said they'd take me if they got first crack at me in the draft. That comes up this week or next, and I won't know anything definite until then. I've written or talked to New York, Syracuse, and Baltimore. Oh, about the other draft--I'm supposed to report to the Army in June...