Of the five contests scheduled in the American Soccer League race this weekend, two of special interest involving Bethlehem Steel F. C. and the great Paterson (N. J.) Football Club hold more than the usual interest and may have an important bearing on the outcome of the professional circuit's pennant pursuit.

Saturday Adolph Buslik's Paterson aggregation, which last Sunday entered the Eastern division semi-finals of the National Challenge Cup play by defeating the Hartford (Conn.) Rovers by a 6-0 score in a fourth round battle at Paterson, will clash with the Bethlehem eleven at Steel Field and on the following day Bethlehem will pay a return visit to the Paterson field, Olympic Park, Clifton, N. J., to combat the Jerseymen.

The Paterson team boasts many former stars of the Robins Dry Dock national champions of 1920-21 season and of last year's Todd Shipyards F. C., also of Brooklyn, runners-up to the national champion Scullin Steel F. C. of Brooklyn, among them Frank McKenna Fryer, Whitehead and Renzulli. It also has "Rabbit" Heminsley, star of the old Erie and Harrison teams of New Jersey, and other stars formerly of metropolitan district teams of the first order. McKenna is among the league's leading goal scorers having seven to his credit, and it second only to Archie Stark, of New York, Brittan of Fall River and Fleming of Pawtucket, all of whom are tied for first place individual honors, with eight goals apiece. McKenna scored four and Fryer two goals against the Connecticut last-survivors in the national championship last Sunday.

Sunday's game at Clifton, N. J., will be refereed by Chas. E. Creighton of New York, a veteran arbiter of early National Cup finals and his aides on the line will be Chas. Ward, of Passaic, and Robert McMahon, of Harrison, N. J.

Statistics in the league follow:

	Goals For	Goals Against
Fall River	26	12
Bethlehem	15	8
New York	27	15
Pawtucket	21	15
Paterson	21	16
Philadelphia	17	36
Harrison	15	27
Brooklyn	14	30

Leading goal scorers for the League -- Archie Stark, New York, 8; Harold Brittan, Fall River, 8; Thomas Fleming, Pawtucket, 8; Frank McKenna, Paterson, 7; Bart McGhee, New York, 6; Percy Andrews, Philadelphia, 6; Thomas Duggan, Paterson, 6; John Reid, Fall River, 6; Daniel McNiven, Bethlehem, 6; Dave Brown, Harrison, 5.