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!Thursday, Pebruary *, m?, 7N* BRANDON SUN,$500,000 Gamblecr |Dll (at 1 'a. IcighThatHasWorldJACK ROXBURGH. . . rich bloodHockeyadachIBy JACK SULLIVANmoneyTheHockeysponsorCanadian Pres* Sports EditorA little matter of about $200 -000 shied Canada clear of staging this year’s world amateur •hockey championships. And the way things are going now, officials afe pleased that they trowed out in favor of the* happy Americans,Canadian Amateur Association, as proposed of the 1962 championships in Ontario—at Kitchener and Toronto — gladly stepped aside when the Americans talked money. The CAH \ couldn’t afford to take chances.“We brought up the matter of holding the 1962 tournament before the International lee Hockey Federation a couple of years ago or more, and we wore serious about it,” CAHA president Jack Roxburgh of SimcoeJFranceI Ont.. .said in an interview the 'o'her day. “But we dropped o t of the picture gracefully wnen we heard the deal the Americans were prepared to make.their wav at the box office. “It f “There's really not nunh“They said they would underwrite part of the cost of bringing European teams to Colorado Springs to compete. This was $500 a man and when you workit out at 20 teams or more and 18 players a team, it comes to ahout $200,000. Other cost s probably would bring the totalbill clcse to $500,000.“That was too rich for our blood, so we stepped aside. Now, I'm kind of pleased in a way that we did.”Roxburgh pointed out that many teams — Finland, Romania, Denmark, H o 11 a n d,and so on-wouid be hard to get crowds mit to see these teams but the big ones would draw.”Roxburgh s comments were made shortly after a meeting' this week in Colorado Springs between the sponsors and officials of the IIHF. The word was that the March 7-18 tournament would go on as scheduled although there have been reports the last f^w weeks that Czechoslovakia. Russia and Sweden wou’d drop out if the Allied Travel Office in West Berlin stuck to its decision to refuse permits to the East German team. |If this happened, tournamentlikely would take a fi-bath. The Czechs, Russians. AmericanssponsorsnancialSwedes.r* *_» ' * « f;»*wouldn’t pay and Canadians are the only _ _ drawing cards and without threeof them the outlook would be%grim.Whatever happens, Galt Terriers will be there to representi Canada.point in going if the Russ ans. Czechs and Swedes aren’t there, but we said we would go an I we'll fulfil our obligations,'' Roxburgh said. “It would help our friends in the C.S.”Roxburgh is determined to do everything possible to gef a full slate of countries in Colora do Springs. This week ho sent a telegram to Prime Minister Diefcnbaker asking the federal government to protest officially the refusal to grant t-avel permits to the East Germans.“We've got to show someinitiative and go after authorities. If we give it an honest try in place of sitting around doingnothing, then the Russians, Czechs and Swedes will realizethat we are trying to savethese championships. Ifbe awfully hard for them fuse to participate.“At least it's worth a try.” The American sponsors would be the first to agree with Roxburgh. They've got a lot of monev riding on this.would to re-
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Feb 08, 1962
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