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Jimmy Gibson and Gordon JIarri- derstudy.Halt ConcessionsTo Major LeagueEgdirwoin^sefEDMONTON, Oct. 29.—It’s “time to call a halt” in the matter of player concessions to the National Hockey League, Russell Stanley, immediate past president of the Dominion and District Hockey association, said at the association’sannual meeting Thursday night.Mr. Stanley said the Canadian Amateur Hockey association waswrong “in lending support to the plan whereby juvenile hockeyiistswere lured away from the classroom or war Industry by Nationalleague clubs.'* •«----~. “Last season, lie said, “theisnhmMrweJirBetinTowhN.H.L. defied the Canadian Amateur Hockey association in the matter of signing juniors for their teams, and now they have started on the still younger juveniles. The time has come to call a halt.“After nil, the C.A.ll A. Is bigger than the National Hockey league. It bad hut to toll the latter that it could not take juveniles, even appealed to the government if necessary, and where would the !national owners have been?Dr. W. G. Hardy, past prcsi-dent of the C.A.H.A. and president of the International IceHockey association, said he agreed heartily with the general proposition that In normal times juveniles should not be signed to professional contracts.Consequently, I warned the C.A.H.A. at that time, at. the annual mooting at Port Arthur, that the N.H.L. would be likely to ask permission to take juveniles for this season. The C.A.H.A. presidents raised no objection. Therefore, when the negotiating committee met the pros, it had to make the choice of saying, without any instruction from the C.A.H.A., that it would not agree to juveniles being signed or else that it would consent, as a wartime measure, a phrase which should he underlined, that it would, in view of the very real difficulties facing the N.H.L., permit juveniles to be signed.sorCotheleaPIiraivafoi44I am not an apologist for the N.H.L., he added, saying “my actions are motivated primarily by what I believe to be for the good of the C.A.H.A.“It was evident last spring that due to wartime conditions the N.H.L. would find it extremely difficult to get players for this season.“If the first course had been followed, the professionals in my opinion would still have signed juveniles and co-operation in hockey would have been at an end. By adopting the second course, the N.H.L., many of whose players will perform with service clubs, have agreed that once the war I? over jt will be prepared to join in framing an agreement which will protect juvenile players. . •»
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Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Oct 29, 1943
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