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n)iWell/herewe90TORONTO 1 CP - Canada is making another try at getting the International Olympic Committee to clear up the confused world hockey situation.Three top officials of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association arrived here Tuesday for meetings with Hockey Canada preparatory to flying to Switzerland Thursday for a meeting Sunday with Olympic president Avery Brundage and his executive boardPresident Earl Dawson of the CAHA, from Rivers, Man., past-president Fred Page from Vancouver, and Gordon Juckes, executive-director from Winnipeg. will leave for Lausanne Thursday.Travelling with them in support will be Harold Wright of Vancouver, president of the Canadian Olympic Association and COA officials Bill Tindall of Toronto and Frank Shaughnessy ofMontreal.“We want to get a written answer from the IOC on the matter of contamination of amateurs,'' Dawson said.It was on this point that Canada withdrew from international competition and gave up the host role in the 1970 world tournament, moved to Stockholm irom Winnipeg and Montreal, the original sites.The annual International Ice Hockey Federation championship was to have allowed Canada nine professionals on its team—an IIHF concession hammered out in Switzerland last July.The other five countries withCanada in the A pool of the tournament—Russia. Czechoslovakia. Sweden, Finland and East Germany—backed out, however, when Brundage gave an opinion that to play with or against Canada's pros would endanger the amateur status of all the players and could make them ineligible for the Olympics.“We feel the IOC will relax its ruling on this point, Dawson said.If the Canadian delegation is successful, “we will go to the world hockey tournament inStockholm next month and apply to the IIHF congress to be re-seated in the A pool. Dawson said.The CAHA president said his group had asked J. F. (Bunny) Ahearne of Iondon. president of the IIHF. to seek the meeting on Canada's behalf but that ‘ Ahearne said it was not a suitable time. So the CAHA ap plied through the COA and Jim Worrall of Toronto, the IOC representative in Canada.“Brundage told us to come ahead and that time would be set aside for us to speak toagainthem on Sunday.” Dawson said “We'll meet Brundage, three of his vice-presidents and five IOC members-at-large.”The IOC executive board will have no power to change rules but, Dawson feels, can make interpretations of existing rulings.The IOC board is meeting as a steering committee leading toward the full Olympic congress meeting set for May 7-16 in Amsterdam. A report of a special committee set up to make recommendations on the code of amateurism is expected to be made at that time.JoelookingforfightNEW YORK (AP) - Joe Frazier says he is ready to take on the best challengers after a rest.“I'm going home to Philadelphia and work with my band a little. said the man who won the undisputed world heavyweight boxing title Monday night on a fifth-round knockout over Jimmy Ellis. T owe them some time so they can make a decent living. They’ve been waiting forme.Frazier was speaking of his rock group known as The Knockouts with whom he appears as a -inger.“I want to fight the best, he told a news conference Tuesday, “but I want to take a rest first. I'm not going to stay out as long as last time 1 from June to February). It was gruelling work to get . back down from 232 pounds to 205.Frazier and his manager. Yank Durham, indicated no preference for opponents for a contemplated September defence.“Floyd Patterson, is he fighting?” Durham said when askedif the former champion was a possibility. “No Cassius Clay isn’t exactly out of it. He might get a licence and come back. If he does, we’ll fight him.”Frazier nodded in agreement.“I don’t, think nobody in the world can lick me, he said“Clay or anybody else Teddy Brenne r. Madison Square Garden matchmaker, said he would offer Patterson $250,000 to fight Frazier in the first week in June.Among the possibilities forFrazier are Oscar Bonavena. who alreadv has lost twice to Joe but did knock him down twice; Rob Foster, the worldunbeaten light heavyweight ch Mac Foster of Fresno, Calif., and Patterson.A Frazier-Clay fight, of course, would be the greatest box office attraction in boxing if Clay ever gets his affairs cleared up. He was stripped ofhis title after he refused to report, for induction in the army in 1968 and is appealing his conviction.Angelo Dundee, Ellis manager who used to train Clay, said Tuesday: “If Clay comes back, he will need a fight or two under his belt, but I don't tlnnk Frazier could lick Clay in condition in a million years.”LETTERBOX
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Wed, Feb 18, 1970
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