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Pros To Non-Pros In One Easy MoveTORONTO (CP) — Processional hockey players from Canada may play in world hockey competition as early as D177, Gordon Juckes, executive director of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association said Munday.Juckes made his announcement following a meeting between officials of six countries —Canada, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Finland and the United States.C a » a d i a n pro hockey players will be registered with tlie CAHA as non-professionals for the purposes of world cup and international tournament competition,” said Juckes.Clarente Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, said his teams would co-operate in allowing players to compete at the international level providing dates could be worked out,The International Ice Hockey Federation’s (11HF) constitution says players representing their country must be registered with that country's national amateur hockey body.Campbell eilcd the operation of the London, England, Lions’ hockey club in 1973-74 as a typical example as to how the system might work.The London Lions were a non-amateur team made of players from the NHL’s De-troil Ret! Wings' organization playing against amateurs. They were under the jurisdiction of fhe British Ice Hockey Federation and playing, exhibition games sanctioned by the UHF,” said Campbell.Campbell said that a pro player who was suspended while playing under the CAHA would not necessarily have that suspension respected by his NUt team when he returned from international competition.“It'll be up to the individual club,” lie said.Juckes along with Jack De-vine, president of the CAHA, and Lou Lefaive, chairman of Hockey Canada's international committee, were the Canadian representatives at Monday’s meeting.Juckes would neither confirm nor deny that Canada would return to actual competition in the Olympics. The eligibility ol non-amateurs likely would* be challenged by the officials of the Olympic Games.Rugby Official Drowns In B.C.VICTORIA (CP) - Richard Ellis, 48, a prominent Canadian rugby official, drowned Sunday while scuba diving off Saxe Point near here.Polce said he apparently gottangled in a kolp bed In 15 feel of water.,EUis, a well-known Victoria lawyer, was president of the Canadian Rugby Union. He was elected to the position in November, 1972 after serving as president of the B. C. Rugby Union.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Tue, Jun 04, 1974
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