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CAHA MeetingSCRules Committee With ProsTo Have Get-Together AirallornalplthBy CHARLES GEREIN Canadian Press Staff Writer } PORT ARTHUR (CP) — The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association decided Monday it will again send a delegation to the annual meeting of the joint professional - amateur rules committee. but this time with more of a get-together attitude.The decision was made at the opening day of the association s annual meeting only after a number of delegates expressed dissatisfaction with the wholesale rejection year after year of CAHA suggestions for hockey rule changes.The joint rules committee, in which the pros enjoy a majority vote, is slated to meet inJune.CAHA secretary • manager Gordon Juckes of Melville. Sask., told delegates: “If we find that they discard all our suggestions, we will be forced to ask them to set up a board of arbitration. If this is refused our next semi-annual meeting will have to decide what to do about our agreement.”The agreement on uniform rules between the National Hockey League and the CHA can be terminated on two years notice.At the last semi • annual meeting of the CAHA, the Thunder Bay branch recommended the CAHA rules committee be done away with because: “It is felt that as we areined the batting lead. He eked up seven points and is at 30. Harmon Killebrew of Min-sota is in the runner-up spot. ; fell six points to .353.Norm Cash of Detroit advan-d to third on a 22-point inease to .345.Jim Gentile of Baltimore con-iues to lead in home runs th 12 and runs batted in, 40.obliged to accept the NHL rules there is no advantage in usingvaluable time at CAHA meet-%ings to consider rules when it is a fore-gone conclusion they will not be accepted.”The rule uppermost with the CAHA is “icing the puck rule. The amateur group last year passed a resolution—it was later defeated by the joint rules committee — saying the play should stop automatically when the puck is iced without a defending player having to touch it.The rule now stipulates that when both teams are at equal strength and one side shoots the puck from its own side of the centre line across the opposing team's goal line, a defender other than the goalie • must touch the puck before the referee stops the play.The original intention of the rule, one delegate said, seemed to have been to keep the players skating at top speed. Delegates defeated a suggestion that the red centre line be done away with.Earlier, delegates gave only brief attention to the perennial “in - the-red financial' report read at the opening of the meeting and passed through 3(3 notices of motion before the lunch break.W. A. Billy Hewitt of Toronto gave his last report a regis-trar-treasurer of the association before he retires. He reported an operating deficit of$9,527 for 1960. then wished a brighter financial statement for 1961 for secrctary-managerGordon Juckes of Melville, Sask.. who now takes on the treasurer’s job.The 1960 deficit results from total receipts of $94,638 and disbursements of $104,165.The 22 voting delegates fromthe nine CAHA branches offered little argument to the 36 notices of motion presented by Art Potter of Edmonton, chairman of the resolutions committee.An issue which sparked themost debate was the association’s reversal of its policy regarding payment to hockey clubs—particularly senior clubs —following the playoff trail.The group decided by a 12-to-8 vote to pay the visiting team $200 and the home club $50 for incidential expenses, exactly the opposite to what the payments have been.Fred Page, spokesman for the Thunder Bay branch which sponsored the resolution, said the main thought behind it in to make up for some of the lost wages players of teams incur-while they travel.Delegates defeated by an 11-to-10 vote an amendment by Frank Dillio of the Quebec branch that visiting clubs receive $150 and the home team $100. In favor of the amendment were Quebec. Manitoba. Ontario and the Maritimes.The meeting adopted a resolution calling for playoff games to be arranged on a 2-3-2 basis, alternating eacli year in Western inter-branch junior A and senior A playoffs.President Jack Roxburgh, of Simcoe. Ont., reported that both the Allan and Memorial Cup series this year were “the finest series financially in some time.”Hewitt, in his report, said the number of players registered with the CAHA increased to 129. 425 in 1960-61 from 122,427 the previous season.However the Ottawa and district and the Quebec and Thunder Bay branches showed decreases.clarA\\thb;tliditototvrefro^Pl.v:Cld(hirestwfcmA'lt;tliTKWKV11ClL•iRBiJfOR,(;EiJiD;CiofitT1............. .•*. .a. ■■ mi lit a id I•
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St Johns Daily News
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Tue, May 23, 1961
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