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Show i uu Ice Hockey Tourney to Decide World Title SETTkE. Wash., March IS World champ'or.ship honors in professional Ice hockey teams will be decider on eastern ice this year between the Itca.n;'! of the Pacific Coast Hockey as-socif as-socif lion, a western organization, and thf National Hockey league, composed pf eastern clubs. The 1919 world series was played here on western ice between Ses:ltle and Montreal. Each year the two big hoikej organizations alternate In hold-inr hold-inr the championship series. N't itl.er the eastern nor western season sea-son has been completed. Ottawa prob-ab'y prob-ab'y will represent the east, according accord-ing tc icporls received here. Seattle, Seat-tle, Vancouver and Victoria, the three members of thewestcrn league, aic in a cose race for the title and the r-h.mi-pioi .ship may not be determined until tho final games. Tho big series probably will be played play-ed late in March or oarly jn April. Fn'.nk Patrick, Vancouver, pre.dent of the western' association, probably will accompany the western 'title holders hold-ers east. No team holds the world titlu at present as the 1919 series in Seattle was halted by influenza when Seattle and Montreal each had won two ga've. The Stanley Cup, given to the champions, was held this year by its trui.lees with both Seattle and Mon-treaj Mon-treaj having claims upon it. |