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...youth, Fred Weiszmann had played football (soccer) in his native Hungary, where, as in most foreign countries, it rated tops in popularity. Six months ago he decided to make Americans soccer-conscious. He raked together $75,000,* organized the Chicago Maroons, wangled playing rights in big-time Wrigley Field, formed a streamlined league which would travel by air. In Chicago last week U.S. soccer moguls promptly approved an April opening for his loop. If U.S. soccer needed a live-wire promoter, he had arrived...
...dapper Sportsman Fred Weiszmann intended to play it safe. Until he learned whether the hitherto apathetic U.S. public would take to soccer, he would stay on as assistant headwaiter at Chicago's popular Wrigley Building restaurant...
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