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) C.A.H.A. Meeting Ends at Weekend After Completing Major BusinessPOUT ARTHUR, Ont., Jan. 6 (CFi - The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association will submit amendments to clauses dealing with transfers or revise transfer regulations at the annual meeting in Calgary in April. Delegates decided at the semi-annual convention here. ^In addition to'discussing steps to remedy transfer violation, both Internationa! and branch-to-branch n Canada, delegates prepared the way for distribution of moneys received from the National Hockey league for C.A.H.A. players, set April 11 as the opening day for the Canadian junior Memorial Cup finals, and approved reinstatement of five professional players.The C.A.H.A. approved reinstatement of Walter Martin of Brantford, Ken Doraty of Saskatchewan, Arthur Merrill of Manitoba, Hillis Pmldon of Hamilton ami Roy Bur-mister of Colilngwood, Ont., subject to approval of the N.H.L. COMPLETED BUSINESS* .Delegates prepared to leave for thflir homes Sunday after complet-fiJf major business Saturday whichI i*lud*cl:^ Approval of a Hockey Week in Canada when 10 per cent of gate receipts of every hockey game inCanada will be donated to aid thewar services.Approval oJ amendments to theconstitution of the newly-organized International ice Hockey Association subject, to further revision attKi; annual meeting.Approval of a $500 grant to the I.I.H.A.Approval of a $1,500 grant toward, an,of the C.A.H.A. committee, bringingto $3,000 the fund established to reimburse Dr‘W. G. Hardy of Edmonton. C.A.H.A. past president, who is chairman of the committee, and his colleagues.Dr. Hardy announced that at least $4,750 will be received this season under the agreement whereby the N.H.L. pays for amateur players signed by professional clubs. According to the agreement, the amateur governing body is paid $500 for each player taken by the N.H.L. and $250 for each player signed by a minor professional club.The distribution of N.H.L. payments to the various C.A.H.A. branches and clubs was left' to the C.A.H.A. committee. All players involved will be placed into two classes, those whose cases are “clear cut” and those whose cases are “doubtful”The distribution will be conducted on a sliding scale, with Canadian junior an » senior clubs of the United States Amateur Hockey Association given the same consideration.Amateurs who signed or were on the reserve or negotiation lists of a professional club after Sept, 12, 1940, when the new N.H.L.-C.A.H.A. agreement war completed, are the only amateurs to be considered .in the “payment” category.FOUR IN WESTDelegates, in Memorial Cup April 11, askedwork out their meet the Aprilnounced thatbranches wouldagreeing that the finals should start eastern branches to play-off schedule to - deadline. It was an-only four westerncompete in the west-m JHrtw- rtwfcw. mitb. erinihColumbia absent.A. W. Macdonald, president of theBritish Columbia branch urged theC.A.H.A. to give its support to ajunior ‘B” series between British'Columbia and Alberta which was approved. The C.A.H.A. agreed to finance the B.C.-Alta. series to be extent of $300Major change in the constitution of the II.H.A. stipulates that the president of the I.I.H.A. must “always be an executive officer or a past president of the C.A.H.A.”In substituting the Hockey Week for the previous proposed Red Cross Hockey Week, delegates decided that the 10 per cent of the gate receipts for war services will be made up of five per cent from the teams and five per cent from each rink.After the close of the two-day convention delegates were guests of the Thunder Bay Amateur Hockey Association at a banquet and later saw Port Arthur Bearcats and Fort William Hurricanes perform in a Thunder Bay senior contest.delegates to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association’s annual meeting next April in Calgary will be asked to approve a constitutional amendment providing penalties to any team playing a player, who has not legally been transferred from one C.A.H.A. branch to another.In an effort to restrict movement of players and branch to branch without authorization of hockey's governing body, the C.A.H.A. approved a resolution at its semi-annual convention here Saturday that states that if a club uses a player who has not received his branch-to-branch transfer, the club will be automatically suspendedI ■ AT-vrLH \£.
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Mon, Jan 06, 1941
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