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Amateur Hockey Heads Solve Referee SituationPORT ARTHUR (CP)—Delegates to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association’s annualmeeting decided Tuesday in favor of the one referee-twc linesmen system of officiating in inter-branch playoff games afterCAHA president Jack Roxburgh challenged them to show guts enough” to decide the thorny issue.The new ruling, which followed considerable argument,took the form of sub-amendment to a sub-amendment to anAlberta branch proposal that would have changed only the wording of rule 35 (A), which gave the CAHA president or his representative the option of appointing either a referee and two linesmen or two referees to handle a playoff series.In effect, the decision was the j not have the intestinal fortitude approval of a Saskatchewan no- to decide one way or the otherUce of potion which earlier WhiCh officiating method should was rejected by the associa- ncpd tion’s rules committee.Some teams found themselves playing first under one system then under the other in this year’s junior and senior playoffs.Delegates from the Thunder Bay and Maritimes branches opposed the new rule but were outvoted 17 to 4. British Colum-This prompted Roxburgh to challenge the 22 voting delegates to show “guts enough” to decide once and for all at the meeting.The executive also favored the referee-linesmen system.The association considered the spearing penalty grave enough to give it a section of its ownbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, On-, jn ruje book. A player now tario, Manitoba, Quebec and thejwlu draw an automatic fiveOttawa district approved the change moved by Bob Alexander of Manitoba.minute major for spearing, where in past the referee could use his discretion. For a secondThe issue approached a head j spearing infraction, the player,when Quebec delegate Frank receives « game misconduct jDilio suggested that some I and his team will play short forfCAHA officers sometimes did five minutes. *
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Wed, May 24, 1961
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