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In CompletenAgreementOaridfa(.sirTVdaMONTREAL, June 9 (OP)—Officers of the Canadian Amateur Hoc-kep Association, meeting with the executive of the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association here Saturday, PI expressed themselves as In “com- | by plete agreement with the suggest- ; Jo ion of the Q.A.H.A. that a new east- j th em body be formed composed of i Bitobjtvscintltlwd8-fir;irE8aSteams in the Maritimes, Quebec and the Ottawa District.George Dudley of Midland, Ont., president of the C.A.H.A. and Dr.W. G Hardy of Edmonton, past president, listened to the Q.A.H.A suggestion that would place playoffs between the three branches in the hands of the new organization, then surprised the Q.A.H.A. executive by saying they favored the s-cheme.Under the proposed system, playoffs leading to the Allan and Memorial cups between teams of the three eastern groups would be controlled by the new eastern Canadian organization, who would take care of the finances of the playoffs until eastern winners were declared, with the C.A.H.A. taking charge from that point on. Under the present set-up, the C.A.H.A. controls allInter-branch playoffsPresident Dudley said he would put the case of the eastern bodies before the C.A.H.A. and ask that the constitution be changed to allow for formation of the new body.Mr. Dudley said that If the Q.A. H.A. goes ahead with the plan, he would be willing to turn' the semiannual meeting—which this year was to have been a meeting of western branches only into a genera! meeting in order that the plan might be discussed so that it could go into effect next season.The Q.A.H.A. executives had said that eastern teams were not getting j ^ enough money out of the playoffs, ^ and that every senior team in r.he province had recorded a los3 for the season; that C.A.H.A. expenses of $30,000 were too high compared with former years.Mr. Dudley replied that Sydney ! j Millionaires, eastern senior winners, ' received about $9,000 from the C.A.H.A. in six weeks of playoffs, in-eludihg a $2,000 bonus and a present j ^ of $100 a game in addition to living j | expenses of $130 a day while they were on the road.As for the second point, the C.A.H.A. president said he had asked several times for suggestions as to how the annual budget could be reduced, but that he had receivedCEFFIi:£r]none. i!
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Mon, Jun 09, 1941
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