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Russian Chief Turns Down* •Chicago Offer To SignTORONTO (CP)—Russians are sirry, but Veniamin Alexandrov who is supposed to be hot stuff as a hockey player won't play for the Chicago Black Hawks organization. The 18-year-old cenlrc-icc star can't accept money for playing hockey.That was the official Russian reply Thursday to a move by the ! Hawks who put the good-looking blonde player on the National Hockey League negotiations list. His name was placed on the list Wednesday by Chicago scout Bob Wilson after watching the Russians practise at Maple Leaf Gardens.Russian officials were amused at the manoeuvre. I understand little about such things, but you may say that the’ boy won't play for anyone but our team,” said Col. Pavel Korotkov, chief of the touring team. “Wc have games or practices every day and there is no time for him to play with another team.The Colonel, chairman of the I Soviet ice hockey federation, addedthat he wouldn't try to stop Chicago representatives from signing Alexandrov. ”1 just happen to know that it won’t do them any good.” DUCK REPORTERSThis little by-play came just 36 hours before the Russians open their seven-game exhibition tour of Ontario and Quebec cities at Toronto Friday night. Thursday, they unintentionally played hidc-and-seck with newspaper men and spectators.They scheduled a soccer workout at Varsity Stadium at 10 a.m. Sports writers turned up at the appointed hour, just in time to see the Russians take off by bus for their'hotel. They had just finished a 40-minute workiut.. A noon hockey practice was on tap at Maple Leaf Gardens and dutiful sports writers and a few fans turned up—but not the Russians. They appeared an hour later and had a light workout, much easier than their lVa-hour warmup on Thursday afternoon, just a fewhours after arrival by plan*Meanwhile, elaborate plans being made to make the Russiaii* feel at home when they open their exhibition series against. Whitby Dunlops. . *TO ECJIANGE TRINKETS ;Just as they do in games in Europe, the players will line up on their blue lines before the game and then skate to centre ice to exchange souvenirs. Playing-coach Sid Smith of the Dunlops will present Captain Nikolai Solcgubov, at 33 the oldest player on the visiting club, with a small cup and in return will receive a pennant from the Russian.The Royal Regiment band will play God Save the Queen and the national Russian anthem and the Russians, who beat Canada in the 1956 Olympics, will try to show ja sell-out crowd of nearly 13,000 that they must be taken seriously wheb Whitby represents Canada in tbe world amateur championships at Oslo next February. :
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St Johns Daily News
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Fri, Nov 22, 1957
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