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Lay BlameAt Ahearne’s Feet. By JACK SULLIVAN .right, but. both are partly to Canadian Press Sports Editor blame.” he-added,Canada lost in its bid to I Art Potter of Edmonton, the Vienna Wednesday to stage the) ?usl ?!?s;1967- world hockey champion• ships and reaction of ..the sport’s amateur officials in Canada ranged from disappointment to surprise.. One blamed the maneouv-rings of John Francis (Bunny Ahearne, the gay dictator of European hockey, and . another called it international politics.The move was made at the International Ice Hockey Federation congress in Tampere. Finland, after •'Canada’s' dele^ gates said they planned only to make it a five-country tournament, eliminating the lesser B- meeting that will shake inter-Pool- teams and putting the hockey to its roots ..championship pool to five from The CAIIA annual session wiII5? Ie^5, A . he held May 23-27 at Victoria,• That was the crux- of the is- B q ■ *sue and only one official—I vanident el the CAHA who battled with Ahearne during the 1964 winter Olympics .at Innsbruck, said we- should take another look, at whether Canada should compete in world tournaments in the'future.'“Because Canada is angry, and rightly so, the Canadian people should undergo a period of. cooling down, investigation, thought and negotiation. .If-we can’t Improve our relationships with the IIHF and guarantee an equal deal for Canada, we should make a decision at the CAHA annual. Hr. George Hardy , of Edmort-Temple of Victoria. B.C. - put I ton. former. CAHA presidentthis down squarelv as the rea- has made many ^ps toton for the IMF's decision.This is the thing that defeated them, said Temple, who represented the CAHA at the Stockholm championships in 1963. SHOULD RISK IT Temple said Canada should have taken the risk of a financial loss.'to get the tournament They didn’t take a financial loss over there, so why should they here?He, and . a .few others. re-Europe and knows the HHF sit uation, said he thinks Canada-earned the right to stage the games in its centennial -year and that the IIHF has “made a-serious mistake.He felt that : Canada must completely re-assess the terms of its participating in' a world event which it did the most to make. ;.Frank Sargent of Port:disappointed at the voting and declared that /‘Canada deserves a better deal.It was certainly our turn to get them. '- Judge Hanson Dowell of Middleton. N.S^ president of the CAHA from 1D45 to .1947, said Canada, should have been given a chance to stage the tournament.We*ve been sending teams jto Europe for years. I don’t think we should withdraw from the IIHF because wc didn't get the championships.But Canada should bid for future tournaments if it were feltthere would be sufficient interest among Canadian hockey fans, he. said. . * •Special consideration should have been given in . view of Canada's centennial year.Lloyd: Pollock . of Windsor, Ont., .second vice-president of the CAHA, said possibly- we should consider now whether or not it is worth going to future championships.. Ahearne didn't help our cause last week when he said at Tampere, before a vote was even taken on the matter, that Canada didn’t have a chance of getting the 1967 tournament because we planned only to limit it to the big. teams such as Russia, Chechoslovakia, . Swe71 \-den. Canada and the U.S. ; J fjected any suggestion that Can- • Arthur, another former CAHA ada pull out of future cham-! Pre5lrient» *a,d Uu? mF vot*pionships.was completely wrong” andJimmy Dunn of Winnipeg, a I added that Canada should con- \ former CAHA president who jM(ier withdrawing from future; has been to Europe with Cana-1 world : championships which dian teams, placed .the blame make them meaning-,for Canada’s failure -on ”Ahearne. He has Europeanhockey in the palm of his hand said Dunn. What he says, goes. ’If Ahearne was out, many European countries would be more reasonable, about the world tournament, but Canadaless.- Fred Page oE Fort William, j first vice-president of the CAHA.! said he thought Canada had a ’ very good case.We just have to accept the decision and keep on plugging.Bob LeBel of Chambly, Que„ former president of the Northmust continue to send teams to j American section .of the IIHF, Europe in an effort to regain' was surprised and extremelythe title it lost last to Russia in ^-—:-—1963.' •NOT SURPRISED .Jack .Roxburgh of Simcoe.Ten PinAces BidTRUCK SALES DEPT.For TitleOnt., .past president of . die j CAHA and Liberal member of : parliament for. Norfolk, said he | is extremely disappointed butJ not Surprised at the IIIIF ac- J lion. He said be is sure interna- j tional politics played a large ipart in the decision.. • -j The Brunswick of Canada Pra-NATO countries, he said, were j vmcial Ten -Pin Scratch Singles partly to blame • because they j Championship, consisting of .three would not issue travel permits ! four-game blocks, will be held, to East’ German hockey teams, j Saturday at the following Lanes: i We feel right and they feel | first shift 10 a.m. — Tuxedo j — I ■ —gag - r i =? • Lanes: second shift 2-p m. — jJACK SETTER
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Mar 11, 1965
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