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ONCE OVER LIGHTLY-Lockhart Heads Both EHL, AHABy BOB HERDIEN Courier Sports EditorTHE UNITED STATES Hockey League, which has been both an artistic and a financial success but doesn't always see eye to eye with the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States, may have to put its players under lock and key next season.A wire service dispatch on page 14 tells of plans to place a team of players from the Minnesota, Michigan and New England areas in Boston, representing that city in the Eastern Hockey League next winter.This statement, by itself, has no particular significance unless one understands that Tom Lockhart, author of the statement, is president cf the EHL. The other hat he wears is that of president of the AIIAUS, with whom both Waterloo and Green Bay currently are in disagreement.The Black Hawks and Bobcats both voted not to pay a major share of their dues to the AHAUS, pending an explanation of “what the AHAUS is doing for us.Currently the two clubs are listed in the AHAUS bulletin as being delinquent” in payment of dues, but suspension is expected when the AHAUS and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association hold their annual meeting at Ottawa, Canada, next week.The answer to what the AHAUS is doing—and has done— for the USHL may be simply that Lockhart is president of the EHL . . , and you can drew your own conclusions.Never Satisfied With AnswersI have never been satisfied I got a good answer to what is done with our money,” said John Kyle, Black Hawk president last season, after a talk with Lockhart at a recent USHL meeting.Waterloo has withheld $987.21 and Green Bay $748.68 in league dues, but the Black Hawks paid in $1,400 in their first season and $250 more last year before shutting off the flow of funds.Neither Rochester nor South St. Paul are involved. The former had to pay up its dues in order to be sanctioned as host for the U. S. Senior Amateur hockey tourney in March, and the latter had no home games, thence no dues.USHL Commissioner Hal Trumble was unavailable for comment Tuesday morning, but it is understood he may attend the Ottawa meeting in an effort to work out some solution to the problem.The USHL already has withdrawn from the AHAUS, making the move at its last meeting in Green Bay.Whether the AHAUS—and the USHL—can reach a compromise is the next question to be answered.The next is whether Lockhart and his Boston backers will attempt to raid the USHL for players with the promise of representing the United States in the World Amateur championships and the 1968 Olympics as a lure.
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Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Tue, May 12, 1964
Page 18
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