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Pollock’s Resignation Comes As No SurpriseBy REYN DAVISLloyd Pollock often regretted becoming president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association at such a critical period in his life.The silver-haired gentleman was simply being run ragged.On Monday, he resigned . . . less than four months after taking on the job which demanded so much of fcis time.Every day he boarded a train at his home in Windsor and rode the 45 miles to work at the Canadian Pacific Railway station in Chatham. :-Ic arrived at 8 a.m.At 4:30 p.m., he would leave the station for the local bus depot where he would climb a bus and arrive back in Windsor to be home by six.Most men could eat, relax, then doze off. But not Pollock. His evenings were spent answering telephones, making calls, writing letters, making appointments and handling all of the business that one would expect to be saddled with as president ol an organization involving 250,000 young men.Even Ids working hours were burdened by his responsibilities as president of the CAI1A. Many hockeypeople never hesitated to pick up the phone and call him over such trivial matters as squabbles over one player.“It's got to be so big,” said Pollock. Really, I don’t think many people realize that I have a job, too. The phone is always ringing. 1 guess I can’t lose sight of the fact that what might seem unimportant tome at the moment is highlyimportant to some people.”Almost every weekend was spent on the read, just like the other days. He was off to Winnipeg one weekend, Vancouver the next, Toronto the next and so on.Windsor, being central geographically but out of the way hockey-wise, was little more than a place to sleep.A native of Owen Sound, Pollock spent 40 years of his life with the railway in Windsor before he was transferred to Chatham last July. It was a teasing type of transfer. Chatham was close enough to make the Pollocks want to keep their home in Windsor, but far enough to make commuting an inconvenience.In September, Pollockwas seriously considering selling his bouse in Windsor and moving to Chatham, butthe roots of 40 years brought strong opposition from his wife.Besides* he is due lor retirement from the railway in 1973, and Windsor seems the only logical place to settle down.Pollock’s hockey problems were enormous . . . and he knew it.The CAHA was the whipping boy of sports writers across the land, and his kind disposition seemed punished by it all.This is a critical period for the CAHA, he said one day. “The government isstudying us and all of amateur sport for that matter, and now this new association (Canadian Hockey Association) has popped up. The branch presidents are really angry but there’s not an awful lot we can do.Last week, Pollock escaped the country for a week away from it all. Heand his wile headed south into the U.S. He didn’t know where he was going. He was just going.He obviously made the dramatic decision to resign in circumstances totally removed from the hub-bub of work and hockey.Nobody close to Pollock was really surprised.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Oct 23, 1968
Page 51
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