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CAHARoxburghInBetweenISmythe DynastyfTORONTO (CP) - A disputeover television rights may result in the Memorial Cup oockcy finals, opening here Sunday, being played without television coverage.K. D. Soble, owner of Hamilton Red Wings and of CHCH-TV Hamilton, Wednesday threatened legal action against Maple Leaf Gardens and the Canadian \mateur Hockey As-ociation if FTO-TV Toronto telcvi.'Os the finals but refuses to share the rights with him.Jack Roxburgh, president of he CAHA. said Wednesday he nad been talking about the mat-.er with Stafford Smythe, president of Maple Leaf Gardens, and it looks as if it will be in :he Ga: dens v televisioncoverage.”Soble’s action came after the ( AHA decided the best-of-seven series must open at the Gardens. Soble had asked that the opening game 1«? played in Hamilton on Saturday afternoon.Soble said CHCH-TV tendered a bid tor television rights on the scries some time ago and was told Tuesday the bid had been rejected and the rights given to CFTO-TV.Soble said he had told John Bassett, chairman of CFTO-TV, that CIK II was willing to share tiie costs and rights if it were permitted to carry the games simultaneously with the Toronto station.‘‘His reply was a flat ‘no,’Bussed, who also is a director of Maple Leaf Gardens, saidft o«*amiltonv.tAndTVStationi ICFTO definitely plans to televise the series.We have bought the rights(from the advertising agency which holds them) and we intend to use those rights, presuming the people of Toronto and Hamilton want to see the games'on television.”The series, between Hamilton and Edmonton Oil Kings,w ill not be carried 011 the C TV private network.Roxburgh said the original plan was to have one game on Hamilton ice and the rest at the Gardens. It was decided with Bob Bibby, Red Wings manager, that the opening game would be held in Toronto because that would really make some money” for the teams. Each team gets 20 perJACK ROXBURGHdefinitely not/ 0• •SIMCOE, Ont. (CP) — Jack Roxburgh, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, Wednesday turneddown a request by Hamilton Red Wings to shift the opening game of their Memorial Cup junior final series from Toronto on Sundav to Hamilton Saturday.K. D. Soble, owner of the Hamilton club, said he had asked Roxburgh to change the schedule because Hamilton fans had urged him to arrange for one game there.Roxburgh said he has informed Soble that such a change is ‘'out, definitely out at the present time.”He said it had been agreed to hold the best-of-seven final at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto starting Sunday afternoon.The western team —Edmonton Oil Kings—have had a heavy sc he iule and it’s just not practical” to open the finals Saturday, Roxburgh added.The original schedule callsfor games Sunday, Wednesday, Friday and the following Sunday at Maple Leaf Gardens.StrangerPast1stBALTIMORE (AP)-Vernon (Lefty) Gomel, * former New York Yankee, took the playaway from the Baltimore Orioles Wednesday.The former star left handed pitcher, now a salesman for3k innrfinn rmndc firm.cent of the gate and the CAHAgets 10 per cent.He said because other events were scheduled later at Hamilton Forum it was decided, with agreement from Bibby, that all games would be held in MapieLeaf Gardens.CAHA IN MIDDLEAfter talking with Smythe,Roxburgh said :‘‘We d be more than happy to publicize the Memorial Cup on television but we re not going to get into this fight with the possibility of being sued ... although our lawyer is not sure whether he lt;Soble can sue u^ He said if the Gardens insisted the series be televised “we would have to take it outof the Gardens.‘‘It boils down to the fact that the two groups refuse to give or take ... the CAHA is caught between the two groups.Soble, whose station has been televising games in Hamilton for eight years, said he was willing to have his team play the series at any point in Canadanamed by the CAHA.‘Til play in Edmonton, Brandon, Kitchener, Halifax or anywhere else the CAHA orders. But 1 violently object to the selfish attitude being displayedbv Mr. Bassett and the Smythedynasty.‘‘I’ll play in Toronto but I'llme the principal parties if the Toronto station insists in excluding CHCH-TV.Said Roxburgh: ‘‘We’d lookfoolish forcing the 'Hamilton) team into the Gardens with TV coverage while we stand to be sued.There’s a CustomAPMnn Rllll fllNR
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Apr 26, 1962
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