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August 1, 1959
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Australia To Enter Team In ‘60 Hockey Olympics
MELBOURNE, Australia— Australia will be represented for the first time in Olympic hockey at the Squaw Valley, Calif., Winter Games next year. Announcing this, the secretary of the Australian Ice Hockey federation, Russell Carson, said the federation had decided to send a team of 18 players and two officials.…
PASSING THE PUCK
PAUL BIBEAULT has been replaced as general manager of the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League by Jack Riley…Jim Morrison, fast-skating defenseman of the Boston Bruins, became a father for the second time last month. The new arrival was a boy…Referee Eddie Powers has been spending the summer working in the mutuels department at Canadian West Coast race tracks. “It’s a lot easier on the nerves than whistle-tooting,” quipped Powers…Red Kelly, veteran Detroit defenseman, decided not to enter Canadian politics after all. He is spending the summer selling steel in Detroit…Most popular Detroit player is not Gordie Howe but Forbes Kennedy…Although Kennedy scored only one goal last season, he is the darling of the paying customers, especially the ladies at any rate. Several times this summer Jack Adams and…
Royals Still Want In AHL Says Selke
MONTREAL, Que.— Frank J. Selke, managing director of the Canadian Arena Company and the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL, has announced that application of the Montreal Royals for a franchise in the American League for 1960-61 still stands. Selke said in a prepared statement that the application, recently rejected for the coming season, has not been withdrawn. Selke quoted from a telegram sent by AHL President Richard F. Canning saying the AHL stands ready to work out details incident to the Royals’ admission beginning with the 1960-61 season. Royals and Quebec Aces both applied for admission to the AHL. After they were turned down, the Quebec Hockey League went out of existence and Royals entered a newly-organized league—the Eastern Professional Hockey League. Quebec Aces did not enter. Selke did not elaborate on what would happen…
Eastern Professional League To Operate With Six Teams
MONTREAL, Que.— The newly-formed Eastern Professional Hockey League appeared set today with six teams after the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Greyhounds had a change of heart and joined the EPHL. Interests in the ‘Soo’, who had earlier made application to enter the EPHL but later backed out because of travel and scheduling committments, consented to come in as the sixth team. It was quite possible another entry or two would join forces with the EPHL but no names were mentioned. The Quebec Aces, still disappointed over not gaining a berth in the American League for next season, said they were not interested in the EPHL under its present set-up whereby one NHL team controlled three clubs in the league. The Aces withdrew from the disbanded Quebec Hockey League along with Chicoutimi some weeks ago but…
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