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r ALIAlAnABy WALTER KREVENCHUKCALGARY (CP) - The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association is attempting to lure back a league that left the fold because of junior age limits and not to rock the profitable deal it has with the National Hockey League.Opposition to the junior-age limit, now 20 as of Dec. 31, wasWill Maenter BeMIAMI (AP) — There were conflicting reports today as to whether Majestic Prince, win-ACE ON 17th - Gary Marks scored a hole-in-one during the Victoria Day Golf Tournament held at the Medicine Hat Golf and Country Club last weekend. Gary was the winner in the Junior competition first flight.BaseballleadersBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS American Leaguemade clear when nine resolutions were submitted at the CAHA annual meeting asking that the age limit be raised by one or two years. The resolutions were submitted by director Alf Taylor of North Gower Ont., and the Thunder Bay, Newfoundland, Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Manitoba amateuric Priher of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, would run in the third leg of racing’s Triple Crown June 7 or take a holiday in sunny California.Owner Frank McMahon of Calgary and Vancouver said early this week that the unbeaten three-year-old would definitely not run in the third leg of the Triple Crown—the Belmont Stakes.But the New York Times quoted McMahon as saying over the telephone from Palm Beach, Fla., that “we’re going to give him a chance to win the Triple Crown.”“If he’s ready and able to run in the Belmont, he’ll run.”However, while McMahon was not available for comment on the story, Edna Resky, his secretary, said: “We don’t know how that report got started. The horse definitely isn’t running in the Belmont.”Told that Majestic Prince did not show up in Baltimore for his scheduled departure to California on United Air Lines freight Flight 2083, she said: “I know nothing about that. Anything else will have to wait until morning.”DECISION STANDSAnd the Miami Herald, in an interview with McMahon at his Palm Beach home Tuesday, quoted him as saying his Sunday decision to keep Majestic Prince out of the Belmont still stands.“I just don’t see the worth of taking the risk,” the Herald quoted McMahon. “I feel very badly about it. There’s no question a Triple Crown is one of myamhitinnc hut T don’t want tnhockey associations.A similar demand was put forward last year by the Western Canada Hockey League before it broke away to join the Canadian Hockey Association, a CAHA rival.Guidance was sought from the junior committee which recommended in plenary session Tuesday that the CAHA abide by itsfor comment at his Riverside, Calif., ranch.In making their unexpected announcement last Sunday in Baltimore that Majestic Prince would not try for the Triple Crown, Longden and McMahon said the colt was 100 pounds under weight and needed a rest.The New York Times story, however, quoted McMahon as saying the colt now would beshipped to Belmont instead of California.“We’ll be with him at Belmont and will watch him to see how he comes around,” McMahon was quoted as saying.Majestic Prince beat Arts and Letters by a neck in the Kentucky Derby and by a head in the Preakness, surviving a claim of foul.Al JoneshammersWilliamsMIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Al Jones decked Cleveland Williams twice with straight lefts in a scheduled 10-round fight Tuesday night and went on to hammer the Houston heavyweight for a TKO after 11 seconds of the eighth round.Jones, 25, 6-foot-6 and 232 pounds, befuddled the powerful Texan with his southpaw style in the early rounds.Williams was making his 80thagreement with the NHL, but continue to seek permission from the professionals to extend the age limit to 21 as of Dec. 31.CAHA PAID $603,000There is good reason to abide by the agreement, signed in May, 1967. In return for being able to draft players when they exhaust their junior eligibility, the NHL in 1968 paid the CAHA $603,000 to help develop minor hockey in Canada. The payment included $75,000 for CAHA administrative expenses.Earlier, president Earl Dawson of Rivers, Man., told delegates that the CAHA has sympathy for opponents of the current age limit and has been trying for some time to change it but the NHL won’t budge.Tuesday night, the CAHA and the WCHL held peace talks for an hour with the junior-age question hovering as a stumbling block to progress.“We had a good meeting,” was all Dawson and WCHL president Ron Butlin of Calgary had to say shortly after the closed session. But severalhours later, Dawson said he will recommend to the CAHA’s board of directors Friday that a throe-man committee be appointed to continue negotiations with the outlaw group.There still is a possibility that the CAHA may skirt the NHL agreement by establishing a hockey category open to players up to 22 years of age. SUGGESTION REJECTEDA resolution to this effect came before delegates Monday with a suggestion from the CAHA’s resolutions committee that it be defeated. Delegates refused to accept the suggestion and referred the motion back to the committee for reconsideration. It is expected to return to the plenary session later in the week.The delegates appeared to be swayed by Joe Kryczka of Calgary, president of the Alberta AHA. Obviously referring to the WCHL, he noted that a group operating in a higher junior-age category had “filled a lot of rinks and given a lot of boys an opportunity to play hockey.” He said that while the CAHA may not wish to establish such a cat-egory on a national basis it should give its branches the option to do so on a regional basis.The WCHL has clubs in Winnipeg, Brandon, Flin Flon, Este-van. Saskatoon, Swift Current, Calgary and Edmonton. Its board of governors now is meeting here.Earlier Tuesday, the CAHA approved changes in its structure which met another condition set by the WCHL before it would consider a return to the ranks.As Butlin put it: “The ideal situation is to have one hockey association in Canada providing that association is structurally organized so that it is democratic and that the teams involved are part of it.”The changes will result in formation of five-man councils to administer senior-intermediate junior and minor hockey in Canada and give club operators a voice in CAHA affairs.ANSWER TO COMPLAINTSDawson said the administrative reorganization is designedBaseballBy THE ASSO National LeagueEastern DivisionW L Pet. GBLChicago2513.658—Pittsburgh1818.5006New York1718.48661/2St Louis1719.4727Philadelphia1519.4418Montreal1122.33311 ViWestern DivisionAtlanta2410.706Los Angeles2114.6003 ViSan Francisco2016.5565Cincinnati1619.4578VhSan Diego1624.40011Houston1624.40011Results Tuesday Philadelphia 0 Cincinnati 4Montreal 0 Houston 5 Pittsburgh 6 San Diego 3 Chicago 7 Los Angeles 0 St. Louis 3 San Francisco 0 Gaines TodayNew York at Atlanta N Philadelphia at Cincinnati N Montreal at Houston N Pittsburgh at San Diego N Chicago at Los Angeles N St. Louis at San Franciscoto meet complaints that “there is a lack of communication” within the CAHA and that the voice of hockey operators “are not being heard.”It will create a 22-man board of directors, which will consist of the president, the past-presi-dent, the executive director, four vice-presidents, 11 branch presidents and the director o£ each of the new councils.Council members will be appointed this year and elected thereafter, with one man coming from each of five regions— Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairie and Pacific.The changes are in line with recommendations made by the federal government’s study group on sport, but Dawson said they had been under consideration long before the group submitted its report.The report, tabled in the Commons last week, said the CAHA had to strengthen its administrative structure and had to solve its Junior A hockey dilemma.standingsPRESSAmerican League Eastern DivisionWLPet.GBLBaltimore2713.675-Boston2113.6183Detroit1816.5296Washington2020.5007New York1821.4628ViCleveland823.25814'*Western DivisionOakland2113.618—Minnesota2013.606VsChicago1516.4844 ViKansas City1620.4446Seattle15204296 VsCalifornia1122.3339 VsResultsTuesdayDetroit 7 Chicago 6 Kansas City 1 Cleveland 4 Minnesota 3 Baltimore 2 Seattle 5 Washington 6 Oakland 1 New York 2 California at Boston ppd Today’s Games Detroit at Chicago ' Kansas City at Cleveland Minnesota at Baltimore Seattle at Washington Oakland at New York California at Boston 2
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Wed, May 21, 1969
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