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July 1, 1961
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Wings Looking To ‘Litz’ As First-String Centre For Club’s Payoff Line
DETROIT, Mich.— Another big change on the big line will be tried by the Red Wings when training camp opens in September. Eddie Litzenberger, former Chicago Black Hawk captain, will center for Gordie Howe and Alex Delvecchio. The Wings traded center Jerry Melnyk and winger Brian Smith for Litz in one of two swaps negotiated by general manager Jack Adams at the June NHL meetings in Montreal. The other one brings Bill Gadsby, at last, to Detroit. Adams went into Montreal looking for a left wing. Instead, he brought back a center and defenseman so Gerry Odrowski, rearguard last year, will be given a shot at left wing. Vic Stasiuk, who put some punch into the first line last season after arriving in a mid-season trade from Boston, will be put on Norm Ullman’s line…
New Interpretation Of Amateur Could Bar Canada From Hockey
TORONTO, Ont. Canada’s participation in future Olympic hockey competition could be ended by the new amateur code edict issued by the International Olympic Committee at its recent meetings in Athens, Greece. The code now requires that amateur athletes must “never have received any payment for taking, part in any sports competition.” Gordon Jukes, secretary-manager of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, admitted that “if the Olympics were held this year, we couldn’t enter a team.” Jukes and Jim Worrall of Toronto, president of the Canadian Olympic Association, agreed that the new regulations, if interpreted strictly, also could affect athletes of any country accepting athletic scholarships, or attending special training camps. They said that it would be necessary to wait until a special committee set up by the IOC to interpret its own rules makes a report…
How They Picked Them
Following is a break-down of the various trading and drafting of players conducted by National League teams: NHL Inter-League Draft Boston: EARL BALFOUR, forward, from Chicago. PAT STAPLETON, defenceman, from Chicago. ORLAND KURTENBACH, forward, from New York. New York: VIC HADFIELD, forward, from Chicago. JEAN GUY GENDRON, forward, from Montreal. Toronto: AL ARBOUR, defenceman, from Chicago. Chicago: BRONCO HORVATH, forward, from Boston. AUTRY ERICKSON, defenceman, from Boston. Detroit and Montreal passed in draft. NHL Intra-League Draft Boston: MATT RAVLICH, forward, from Sault Ste. Marie (EPHL). GORDON TANSLEY, defenceman. from SeatUe (WHL). New York: DENNIS OLSON, forward, from Springfield (AHL). Chicago: RAY BRUNEL, forward, from Winnipeg (WHL). Montreal: CESARE MANIAGO, goalkeeper, from Rochester (AHL). Detroit and Toronto passed in draft. Inter-Team Trades Montreal: BOB TURNER, defenceman, to Chicago for forward Freddie Hilts, Sault Ste. Marie. CLIFF PENNINGTON, TERRY GRAY, forwards, to Boston for forwards Willie O’Ree, Stan Maxwell, Maxwell…
‘Billyh Hewitt Leaves CAHA Post
TORONTO, Ont.— The great ‘grand daddy’ of amateur hockey—W. A. ‘Billy’ Hewitt — has retired from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, a group he has served for nearly 46 years. The 86 - year - old Hewitt, still keen about the game he loves so much, re ceived a standing ovation at the CAHA’s annual Port Arthur meeting. He is retiring as the as sociation’s registrartreasurer — a iob he ‘Billy’ Hewitt performed since 1924. He will be succeeded by Gordon Jukes of Melville, Sask. Hewitt, showing no signs of an attack of pneumonia that struck him during a European tour with the senior Winnipeg Maroons last winter and forced him to spend nearly a month in Prague and London hospitals, said he plans to continue taking a strong interest in hockey. “I…
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