The Archive · 1922

North China Ice Hockey Team

To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuinsa Dairy News."

Sir,—In your recent Canadian correspondence, and editorial comment thereon, you have unwittingly published in this country a gross misrepresentation of facts, and an abysmally ignorant series of assertions in connexion with the proposed visit of a North China Ice Hockey Club to Canada.

The Ice Hockey Club mentioned is a combination of the Tientsin Ico Hockey Clubs amd the Peking Ice Hockey Club, whose membership. is purely foreign residents of each city. There is no Chinese in the membership of either club.

The combined team would not be "Peking Chinese,' but about a dozen young foreign business men, drawn from the two clubs. As a matter of passing interest, I will add that so far no one here has ever seen a Chinese play ice hockey.

The combined organization wrote the Canadian Amateur Ice Hockey Association to see if it were not

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