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Kryczka BomlMids WHA Bid To WCHLBy LLOYD JOUNSTON cirAnLcoTiirrowN (CP) -Joo Kryc3kH ot Calgary driiv* erod a Bcathing aliack on ihc World HacXoy As^oclaUon—and pre.sldent Gary Da1dsoQ inpaiticidar—in his aimual re* port to Ihe Canadifln Amateur it 0 c k e y AssodatwTi (CAIIA) Monday.am distressed and upsol Umt a person purporiing lo be tho head ot a proleaslonal hoC' key group would report that the \VEA had terminated oego* llallona wlUi the CAHA because Its dollar figures were too high,'* the outgoing CAHA presiilcnt said.We have encmnitcred many dlMcultiea In irking to negoUa* to with the WHA and in iact made no progress until about two itionUis Krycska tolddelegates from the 11 toanchoa.We had prolimumry meetings with thdr orCicUla nod a further sossiou during the Me* morial Cup playofis in Moit-Ircar’ Ivryezka said.I cfliYt uiuler^Und what Davidson was talking about when he reported to the news media tliul our doll DC figures wcro too high, ulien in fact the figures (hscussed were luought in by memborB of the WHA cominit-iRO.Thia represents on area in which we will have lo atand up and bo counted and prove to the WlfA or anyone else who cares to Dslen that we aro the governing body of ainaleur hockey in (his country.The WHA apparenlly now is content to sjt on the sldeliDos and steal om* players and the association is attemptljig to drive a wodgo Ik? tween our branches, 1)C said.Kryczka was refcn*mg to rumors circtilalmg Sunday that the IVHA hns Dffcred the Western Canada Ifockey I-eaguo $7)»000 per team lor development programs lo acquire a pipGllne to graduating amalcui pluyvis.Ilia SashUhesvau Amotcur Hockey Assoclalioa was reported to be speartieadLiig a move to have the WClgL break ranks with the CAHA, but Kryczka urged delegalos to discount those reporta.”GentlcmeR, he said, 1 hope tills will never liappcjuKryczka did not deny that Oio tVTIA has atlcuipted to woo Uic WCHL £rom the CAflA and he iccommeDded tliattliie mnt-Icr be dealt ^viUl in dctoU by the Junior congress and on the coiivcation floor.He a 1^0 severely critlcl?cd Ibc lutcniatiounl loc Hockey Federatiott (UllT) and Hockey Canada for tholr allltude toward tho CAHA.Kryczke said that during meetings in llomama, the CAHA delegates were treated mth coDtamptj liuultcd end buiTilllaled** by nilF prestdeut J. F. (Bunny) Aheame and '‘we abould have long memories on that Bcore.We have received poor oo-operation fivm Hockey Canada/' Kryczka snid, and 1 believe iho time has come when we must decide whelhcr to conllnuc our association with Ihal group.I am coacemcd that this organization (Hockey Canada) received $400,000 from the Hus-sln-Caiinda hockoy series and ROW is pcttUoruag for a $200,onogrant Icom the federal govern-mcnU-the puqioso of which escapes me.Kryczka suggested tliat gov-nniment grajtts should be pnidlo ILe CAHi^.Although tho president drew a ripple of lau^tcr when he inoDtloDed that the Saskatcho* wan branch was in the vanguard of a move (o romance the WHA, it was noteworthy that during preaentaliona of resolutions committee Tcporta that SAHA presldeot Harold Jones of Heglna was rebuffed in a bid to bavft the commit-Icc'e recommendation amc^-cd.Jones attempted to block a suggestioQ by Kcyczka that the report of Uie slnicluxlng com-hilUee be deferred until a spedal mccthig of CAHA directorsIDsscncQ or tlio roaoluticm calls for dbsolvojiicnt of the Thunder Bay and Ottawa district branches.This is one of the more hn-portaut problems wo have to firopplc wiUi. Jones said. It has been discussed by the board of directors previously and also by the resolulions eouunlllce and I scD no reason why this m a t L 01’ bhouldnT bo settled here.*T lliiiilc 1VC owe it lu llio people fpoju Tliunder Bay and iho ODHA to let tlicm know wlietlmr ihey are going to bo executed or reprieved, Jonos said.Itay Fccbles, president nf tba B r i t i 6 li (kIumbin AmateurHockey AssocSaUon, questioned tho reason for defermoat uf the vote on the resolution.G. H. Xlurvie of Edmonton, president oi tlic Alhcri.a associ-aticHj rrpliccl that it would lake a full day to go Uirough die report and ho foil H sliould not be rammed through in 10 or 15 miiiulcs.Duritig Lho first ploimiy session. Kryczka reported that Vif tioual playoffs at all levels had been succossful.Eis comingNOTICEOm lo in* Trl-PrMfnee Swim Mvoi PUBUC SWIMMING HOUnS at thft PAN*AM f 001. WII cbinge at fellvwi:Sunday, May 27,1179 Cloiotf 9;00 a-nir - 2;30 p.m.Opan 2:30 pm - 10;DO p.m.THK C1TV0PWINN1»EQ (INNER GITT) RARKa ANDRECR6AT10M PRARTMIMT
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Tue, May 22, 1973
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