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★ ★ ★★ ★★ * ★★ ★ ★Claim Russian Charges Unfounded{By THE CANADIAN TRESS Sherbrooke Beavers have drawn support in their denial that Canada’s ambassador to Russia threatened to call off two of their games in Russia last week because of rough play.Lloyd Pollock of Windsor, Ont., vice-president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association who was in charge ofthe Beavers* tour of Europe, arrived back in Canada Tuesday with the team.He said reports that Ambassador Robert Ford had rebuked the team for alleged misconduct and rough play during a game last Thursday in Kalinin 120 miles north of Moscow, came as a complete shock.Players and officials of theBeavers, 1965 Allan Cup champions and winners of the AlieameCup series in Sweden lastmonth, also denied they had been hauled up on the diplomatic carpet by Ford.The team arrived home in Sherbrooke Tuesday night.A report from Moscow Monday said that Ford had made a special appeal to the team last*j‘ 1 Hi.,inSportMenuWEDNESDAYHockeySouthern League. Lethbridge Ramblers vs. York Hotel. Adams Ice Centre 8 p.m.Church League. Warriors vs. Southminster 7:30, Anglicans vs. Nazarenes, 9 o’clock. Arena.Basketball Southern Association. Doug's vs. Magrafch 7:30, Checkers vs. Milk River 9 o’clock. Civic Centre.THURSDAYHockeyChurch League. Nazarenes vs. Mennonites 7:30, Raymond vs. Penteco s t a.l s 9 o’clock. Arena.FRIDAYBasketballLethbridge High School. Raymond Mustangs vs, LCI Colts, 7 p.m., Raymond Comets vs. LCI Rams 8:30. Lethbridge Colleeiate. Churchill MastiffsANDY CAPPFriday to refrain from rough play. The appeal followed thegame in Kalinin which the Beavers lost 15*4 to a Soviet Army team.The Beaver s. returned to Moscow for Friday and Sunday games against, two other Russian teams and lost 8-1 and 6-5.Pollock said that he and other officials travelling withthe Beavers were invited to Ford’s office last Friday afternoon.“He was nice to us and the only comment he made about the previous night’s game was that the Russian press had been very hard on us and it wasn’t nice for diplomatic relations. He hoped the next two games would be good ones.”Pollock admitted the Beavers were edgy in the Kalinin game, but said that the refereeing was awful and that the Russian Army team included “at least six or seven players of their national team.”Raymond Bergeron, president of the Beavers, said Tuesdaythat Ford never mentioned rough play during the Friday visit.Georges Roy, playing-coach and a star defenceman of theBeavers, said his club played rough hockey in Kalinin but that the Soviet team “played just as rough and the referees didn’t know hockey.”Both were at the Friday meeting along with Pollock;Henri Crochetiere, president of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association and Len O’Donnell, president of the Quebec Senior League.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Wed, Jan 19, 1966
Page 6
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