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Decide On Playoff OfficialsPresidents Prodding ot Delegates Gets One Touchy Puck Question FixedBy CHARLES HEREIN Canadian Press Staff Writer PORT ARTHUR (CP)—Delegates to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association's nnnual meeting decided Tuesday In In-vDr at the one referee-two linesmen system of officiating In inter-branch playoff games after CAHA president Jack Roxburgh challenged them to show guts enough1' to decide the thorny issue. •. The new- ruling, which followed considerable argument, took the form of sub-amendment to a sub-amendment to an Alberta branch proposal that would have changed only the wording of rule 35 (A), WhichSport Dates Are ChangedDue to the passing Saturday of A. J. Walaon, noted criuenLor in Lethbridge, dales for the Inter-School Junior High school Track and Field Meet, and the finals in the Junior High Soccer Leagues have been changed.Tlic track meet, scheduled tn be run off today, will instead take to the Civic Sports Centre field tomorrow.The soccer finals with games in both tho junior and senior divisions, originally set for to-inorrow evening, will move lo next Thursday at the Civic Sports Centre.Rotary Meet On SaturdayLelhbridgu's annual Rotary• Inter • scholastic Track and• Field Meet Is set to get under way this Saturday at the Civic Sports Centre field at 10 a.m.. Entries for the affair havo been mailed lo all junior high schools and high schools ’ in Southern Alberta for the popular annual meet.gave the CAIIA president or his representative the option or appointing either a. referee and two lincsnicu or two referees lo handle n playoff series.In effect, the decision was the approval of a Saskatchewan notice of motion which earlier wns rejected by tho association's rules committee.Some teams found themselves playing lint!,* under one system thea under the other hi this year’s Junior and senior playoffs. ’ •CJIAKCE APPROVED Delegates from the Thunder Bay and MarJtlnies branches opposed the now rule but were outvoted 17 to 4.- British Colum-bie) Alberta,* Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec and the Ottawa district approved the change moved by Bob Ale.xan-’ der of Manitoba.• The rule3 committee origin-ally ucceplod Alberta’s wordingamendment proposal, rejectingSaskatchewan's call for tho rer-cree-lincsmen system and Manitoba's bid for two referees. Earl Dawson of the Manitoba branch later abstained from voting on the eventual rule change.Fred Page of the Thunder Bay branch proposed the first sub-amendment fo the amendment, culling for Ihe two-referee system. He received little -support.The issue approached a head when Quebec delegate Frank Dilio suggested that some CAHA officers sometimes did not have the intestinal fortitude lo decide one way or Hie other which officiating method should be used. . •'This prompted Roxburgh tochallenge the 22 voting delegates to show guts enough Id decide once and for all at fits meeting.: The executive also favored the referee-llnesmeu system.The association accepted n proposal by .J H. Whittaker of the Ottawa district that in fu-urc referees be appointed from Dny province except the., home province of the participating teams. *The rule change docs Dot affect regular league games orleague playoffs, in which two referees may be used.A proposal by the Manitoba branch that mo CAHA adopt the rules ot tho International Ice Hockey Federation was turned down without discussion.The association considered tho spearing penalty grave enough to give it a. section of its own In iiic -rule book. A player now will draw* an automatic five-minute major for spearing, where in past the referee could use his discretion. For a second spearing Infraction, the player receives a gnmc misconduct and. his team wilt play short for five minutes.The association rejected an Alberta bid to have a player assessed a game misconduct for a second lilgh sticking offence.B.C. found no support for its proposal that icing the puck should not be allowed at any time, whether tho teams arc equal In strength or net. Atpresent when lhlt;\ teams arc atequal strengh, icing the puck results in a Taccoff In the offending team's goal area, while a team serving a penalty may Ice the puck without a stoppnge In play resulting.Greaves Ready Meet ContendersHALIFAX (CP) — Wllf Greaves. Canadian middleweight boxing champion, said Tuesday he is willing lo defend His championship against Blair Richardson of South Bar, N.S.Greaves, on Edmonton native now fighting .out of Detroit, said in u lung distance telephone interview he wants lo meet the Canadian Maritime champion early this summer, preferably In Halifax.“I will fight any one of tho Lop contenders in the Canadian middleweight division, preferably the top man. All 1 ask is two plane tickets and a small guarantee.Greaves, one-time contender for the world crown, now is not rated among.the top 10. He has not defended his Canadian title for soma time.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Wed, May 24, 1961
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