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WINNIPEG FREE PRESS. MONONew Pro-Am Pact CloseMONTREAL (CPi—The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association and the National League appeared Sunday to be only a sivp away from formal signingof a new pro amateur agreement.However after weekend meetings, the rift between the CAHA and the outlawed Cana-nadian Major Junior Hockey League or Western Canada, ap-peered wider than ever.The CAHA executive met Clarence Campbell. NHL president. for three hours Saturday to discuss the proposed new agree-mAfter. Campbell and Gordon Juckes of Melville. Sask.. CAHA seeretarv-manayer, agreed the onlv point to be settled concerns the age at which junior players mav become subject too the professional universal draft.The pro-amatcur agreement include* a development fund to •start next season, whereby the NHL provides the CAHA with funds for operating junior leagues throughout Canada. ^ Until the end of this year s hooker season, junior teams m Canada will continue to be sponsored by the professionalclubs. , , .The proposed . developmentfund will be initiated with a, j t pai^iie The Edmonton clubsrw es«k SHh- -NHL for direct dtstr buuon - - fomer alhe CAHA through its ' «ll0US; 5°JJ“20 as of May 31, could— expected to increase continue m junior hockey for t0T£.S.'aUe O' Vancouver,J still to he resolved is an CAHA president, .fald Sunday NHL request that the CAHA set his organization will ?tle™pl *the junior age limit for players;work out a compromise on age s _ „ .at 20 as of Dec. 31 of auy play--limit problem. maUer willjouslv have one group of rulesneed of f«r- fftf, .he Ea„ -men juiucu -----CAHA promptly outlawed the group.Frank Boucher, president ol the maverick league, accused the CAHA Saturday of discrimination against junior hockey 111 the West.“Since the CAHA refused to lift the suspensions, they obvji . . Af i-nlPtpros nave saic, uk* y ~to accept the universal draft to ther meetings, over-age juniors. The CMJHL. which operatesThe CAHA accepted these teams -m Regina, Estevan, nns at its semi-annual meetMoose jaw. Weyburn and Sas-another for the West.Boucher said that the junior Montreal Canadiens are members of the Ontario Hockey Association Series A group, which spans two provinces. The CAHA in ruling against the West hadICdino - o - —terms al its semi-aonuai nww Moose Jaw. Weyburn and basing in Winnipeg Jau. 21- but katoon in Saskatchewan and in a«kc*cl that some phase-out ar'calgarv and Edmonton, Satur-a;. ....------------------ dav saw its application for re- in ruling agamai u» “r;Natives Oust j dBttmd SSES.*? S? “Unc*,Thompson Club ! ^ ^«iZrssmediate ‘A’ ^ ferred tc our annual meeting, within these regulations for aduring the weekend by s\ eepi g jt 0Q,y perjod o£ two years.Thompson m a bcst-of-three Juckes decision un- Boucher said this year s Me--S£SS.^r«- «- V“ V*^5 ^ZPiup ; no61*further misunderstandings holders of _the Memorial CupSffiJ* fSduS'TraSed UP | no further misunderstandings the series with a 6-3 verdict Sun-' when W*™* set^ ^Natives will face Stonewall in 1966 annual meeting ro Moot-ipflnextSwi:kf°r thC ChamPi°n' ; mSt ^TS^SjSJ^holders of the Memorial Cup and they or any other team in the CMJHL will be ineligible for cup play as Ion? as they remain under CAHA suspension.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Feb 27, 1967
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