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C AHA Ruling!Causes Crisis :KITCHENER, Ont. (CP) - A jweekend decision of the Cana- ^dlQQ Amateur Hockey Asnocla-tiou has created a major crisis . in the affairs of- the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A j group, Jt was learned here Mon- , day. ;Some lime ago the oh a Junior coudcII accepted Montreal junior CanadJeos as a sixito team to teplace Toronto Mori- | boros who have withdrawn io ■ rorm a six-team Junior metro league ID Toronto.CAHA president Jack R0\‘- '■ burgh of SimCoc, Ont., said I Monday th© CAHA cannot per- * mlt the Montreal team In plBy in the OHA. He cited rcgula- -tlons, renewed and enlarged at ; Ihe last CAHA annual meeting, , which requires clubs to com- . pete In leagues lu their own branch.T.lOyd Pollock- of Windsor. OHA president, made a verbal application at the weekend for the admission of the Montreal learn to the OKA.Ho said Monday the CAHA attitude would prove most disturbing la the Junior A clubs.Roxburgh said 11 would not l be possible to move the Cana- • dlcn.s, who are made ap of Quebec branch players, cn masse to Ontario because of rules restricting branch-to-branch transfers.If the Junior scries does decide 10 operate Independently, Uic protection of CAHA cards against player raids by clubs from cuislde Canada would be forefeilcd, Pollock said. Tlmt would make Umj players open in offers from the U.S. and Europe, without the need cfreleases.WANTS ADD TEAMIn Ollawa general manager Sam Pollock of Montreal Junior Canadicna sa’.d Monday that despite the CAHA stand, everything poaidble will be done toadd the Quebec laim to the OKA group next season.Pollock said the Kitchener meeting expressed only anopinion anti Ural Urta opinion would become official o o I y after ratification by 111* full CAHA executive.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Tue, Aug 29, 1961
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