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W lio'sKiddingWhoMOSCOW lt;AP) - The Soviet Ice Hockey Federation demand-i eci reconsideration Wednesday • of Hie International Ice Hockey i Federation's decision to let : professionals play in the 1030 world championships.. The Soviet Federation said ; I hat the decision “runs counter j lo the interests of the future de* i vclopment of world hockey.’*! “11 casts aspersions on the: purity of amateur hockey and may result in the exclusion of hockey from the winter Olympic games.” 'The Soviet government insists that ail its hockey players are amateurs but it is widely maintained in the West that they work at the game fulMime ar»d get paid and therefore should be considered professionals.In Vancouver. Fred Page, a | member of the four-man North ! American council of the IJHF, | said the Russians have little , “hopes of having the decision ! reversed before the next meel-| ing of congress next March.”“The decision was made by« majority vole at a regular an-. nual meeting and would have to | he protested at the next one,” | Page said.The next, meeting is scheduled j during the A pool tournament in : Winnipeg next March.“1 don't think there is really ; much the Russians can do | now.” Page said. “\i they withdrew from the tournament, they ; could be relegated to the B pool ; for failure to appear.“| The IJHF delegates decided at! 1 heir lost annual meeting u | drop any team that fails to ap-, pear for A pool comjxiUtion into B division unless the reason for absenteeism was Ijv “an act of I God.”
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Jul 31, 1969
Page 42
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