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Canadian hockey typesare annoyed at BrundageBy THE CANADIAN PRESSCanadian hockey officials are unruffled over apparent efforts by International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage of Chicago to toss a monkey wrench into the works of the 1970 world hockey tournament.Brundage has raised strong objections to the planned use of professionals in the tournament, scheduled for next March in Winnipeg and Montreal, and the viewpoint has placed J. F. (Bunny) Aheame of London, England, the International Ice Hockey Federation president, on the spot.Earl Dawson, Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president, said in an interview from his Rivers, Man., home he “is not getting excited or even taking seriously” the latest statements by Brundage and Ah-earne.Aheame said in London Thursday he was informed by Brundage any country that uses professionals o r participates against professionals will be ineligible for Olympics play.Ahearne cast the deciding vote at a summer IIHF meeting in Switzerland favoring the use of nine professionals for teams competing in the 1970 hockey tournament.The IIHF president said he has called an emergency meeting of his seven-country council, which includes two Canadian delegates, for Jan. 3-4 in Geneva, Switzerland, to review the situation.“We have three ways of fighting a statement like that,” Dawson said of Brundage’s edict. CAN SIT TIGHT“We can sit tight and see what happens and, if the IOC comes through with such a ruling, we can point out that anyone who played in the recent Moscow tournament would be just as ineligible as anyone in the 1970 tournament because theCanadian national team used four professionals in those games.“And there is one final course of action,” Dawson said. “We could simply appeal to professional hockey in North America to change its rules for reinstatement of players to amateur from professional.”At the same meeting where the use of nine professionals for the 1970 tournament was approved, the IIHF changed the deadline date for reinstatement of professionals from the previous summer to Feb. 10 of the same year in which the tournament is played.Concerning the use of four professionals in the Canadian team lineup at Moscow, the CAHA asked Ahearne if this would make amateurs ineligible for the Olympics.“What we did was shoot thethe recent Moscow tournament.”Fred Page, IIHF North American president, expressed from Vancouver a similar viewpoint.“Frankly, I can’t see what all the fuss is about,” Page said.WHAT DIFFERENCE?“I can’t see that there would be any difference between the exhibition series and a championship competition in Canada next March,” he said referring to the use of professionals in the Canadian lineup at Moscow.“Where would one draw the parallel ...? If playing against professionals contaminates them, they are already ■ contaminated.”Gordon Juckes, CAHA executive director, said in an interview from Winnipeg that Wayne Carleton and Jim McKenny,-both professionals, had played ic for Canada in Russia earlier (puck back into Bunny”s end of this fall along with minorfL a wiwlr D Tt n . P A • « *t . i _ *1the rink,” Dawson said, “and now he can try to work his way cut ... we’re waiting forprofessionals from the Montreal , Canadiens’ chain.“And don’t forget a few years ,. 1 t 1 : 1Bunny to check with Brundage ag0,” Juckes added, “when theon the status of the players inMartinmust haveoperationPHILADELPHIA (A P) — Leotis Martin, the Philadelphia heavyweight who knocked out Sonny Liston last week, is scheduled to undergo eye surgery today at. a hospital here possibly ending his ring career, his manager said Thursday. Martin is scheduled for an op-Russian team played against Montreal Juniors, Jacques Plante, Doug Harvey and a for- , ward line from Quebec Aces 1 were added to the juniors.” i.“Who needs whom the; most?”, asked Allan (Buck) ]Houle of Toronto, general manager of the Canadian national1:team. “Does hockey need the Olympics or do the Olympics need hockey? Does Canada need world hockey or does world hockey need Canada?“In Japan, they’re building a new arena to look after the Olympic hockey for 1972. If there’s 110 hockey, somebody:eration to correct a detached will commit hari kari. Hockeyretina in his right eye, said his manager, Pinny Schafer.Schafer said Martin has been assured by doctors of success of the operation; but danger of recurrence makes it seem unlikely that he’ll box again.is a big money maker and it carries the Winter Olympics.“Last year Brundage had to back down on the South Africa issue in the Olympics and lie's fouled up the skiing picture too,” Houle charged.
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Fri, Dec 12, 1969
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