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$38,000 ProfitPuck Seriesiitln• iPORT ARTHUR, April 26.—The Canadian Amateur jj Hockey association announced Saturday that playoffs this season up to, but not including the current junior and senior {t final series, have netted the C.A.H.A. $37,934.99.The figures, released at the annual meeting which continues here today, showed a surplus of $22,804.61 from Western Canada senior playoffs, a $2,517.80 deficit from Western junior playoffs, and $9,175.76; a and $8,472.42 surpluses, respectively, from Eastern senior and juniorgames. -..................Earlier, W. A. Hewitt of Toronto, registrar - treasurer, stated theInKAaC.A.H.A. surplus from last year’s playoffs was $37,586.Mr. Hewitt, also chairman of the finance committee, announced that $5,000 had been given to the Dominion government as a gift and that President Frank Sargent had been authorized to purchase on behalf of the C.A.H.A. a $5,000 Victory bond.A recommendation brought in by the finance committee that allowances a game for clubs competing in playoffs be raised from $60 to $80 for seniors and from S50 to $60 for juniors met opposition, with the majority of delegates in favor of increasing the grants to minor hockey.Under the present C.A.H.A. regulations $9,000 normally has been granted minor hockey in Canada or 75 percent of the surplus moneys after the C.A.H.A.’s budget of $30,000 has been distributed among competing clubs. The remaining 25 percent surplus is used by the C.A.H.A. for patriotic purposes. Each club reaching the national junior and senior finals receives a bonus of $500.president of the International Ice Hockey association, reviewed cases of players paid for by professional y teams.nDave Dryburgh of Regina, secretary of the Saskatchewan Amateur ; v Hockey association, entered claims Is for payment to the Swift Current intermediate team for Steve Buzin-ski, goalkeeper, who played the first seven or eight games in the N.H.L. for New York Rangers this season.Both Dr. Hardy, chairman of the inter-relations committee, and Dudley re(**nmended that adjustments be made in dealing with amateur claims for payments from professional teams in view of the many players lost by professional teams to the armed forces shortly after the players signed.FrtcRadio ComplaintDebate DeferredDebate on the recommendations was deferred until tonight.Sargent referred to the resolutions committee a complaint he said he received from some radio stations that they should not have to pay the C.A.H.A. for broadcasting hockey games. Up to the present time, the C.A.H.A. had realized $1,500 from broadcasts of 1942-43 games, he said.In his presidential address Sargent voiced disapproval of the “shinny” tendencies hockey had developed this season. He urged the rules committee take measures to curb this condition. “Hockey hasicrce84Cecillis1IGeorge Dudley of Midland, Ont., I suffered from the type of gamepast president, said the C.A.H.A. now being played,” he said. “It’shad agreed that half of the pay- the worst game of shinny I’ve ever!! ments owed by professional clubs seen.”Hewitt, in his registrar-to amateur clubs for players be deferred until such times as the players lost return to professional hockey.Mr. Dudley said that moneys received in payments from Nationaltreasurer’s report, said registrations for 1942-43 had increased more than 4,000 to total 17,167.He gave the C.A.H.A. total assets at $56,995.72 at Dec. 31 last, includ-(Hockey league this season were ing $49,257.18 in Dominion of Can-about 50 percent of what they i ada bonds, cash in the reserve fund,normally would have been.current, account which totaledDr. W. G. Hardy of Edmonton, $2,738.54, and $5,000 in Victory life member of the C.A.H.A. and bonds.
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Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Apr 26, 1943
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