Today's OED antedating: "stall"

Stall, a calculated act of delay or misdirection (n.2, sec 4 (b), first use cited 1945): Poem titled "Tosca," by pseudonymous "Flaccus," aka attorney Newman Levy, New York Tribune, August 2, 1921, p 8, col 5: "I framed it so they'll pull a fake shoot fer a stall."