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Ater playing in St. Louis before 9,662 people, the Scottish booters moved on to New York for the second of seven scheduled stops. Chief purpose of the tour: to try once again to whip up enthusiasm for soccer in the U.S., where the game's most rabid admirers* are in such places as St. Louis, Kearny, N.J. and Fall River, Mass. One reason why soccer may never take the U.S. by storm: the peak of the season comes during the winter months when fans prefer to be indoors and more comfortable watching basketball.
*Many of whom, especially among first-and second-generation citizens, follow the results of European soccer as avidly as Europeans, bet their dimes and dollars in U.S. pools on the same matches.