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CAHA Wonts More To Say About Rules4PORT ARTHUR (CP) - The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association decided Monday it again will 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 chances.The joint rules committee, in which the pros enjoy a majority vote, is to meet in June.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 boardof 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 CAHA can be terminated on two years’ notice.The rule uppermost in the CAHA’s mind is the “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 tefms 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 defenderother 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 36 notices of motion befpre the lunch break.W. A. (Billy) Hewitt of Toronto gave his last report as registrar - treasurer of the association before he retires. He briefly reported an operating deficit of $9,527 for 1960, then wished a brighter financial statement for 1961 to Secretary-manager Gordon Juckes of Melville, Sask.. who now takes on the treasurer's job.Financing the CAHA, said Juckes in an interview before the meeting, is a topic likely to come in for discussion Jater. The 1960 deficit results from total receipts of $94,638 and disbursements totalling $104,165.The 22 voting delegates from the nine CAHA branches offered little argument to the 36 notices of motion dealing with bylaws add regulations as presented by Art Potter of Edmonton, chairman of the resolutions committee which met Sunday.The issue which sparked the most debate was the association’s reversal of its policy regarding payment to hockey clubs—particularly senior clubs — following the play-off trail. The group decided by a 12-toft vote to pay the visiting team $200 and the home club $50 forincidental 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 is to make up for some of the lost wages players of teams incur while they travel.Delegates defeated 11 to 10 an amendment by Frank Dilio of the Quebec branch that visiting clubs receive $150 and the hometeam $100. V. IThe meeting adopted a resolution calling for playoff games to be arranged on a 2-3-2 basis, alternating each year in Western inter-branch junior A and senior A play-offs.President Jack Roxburgh of Simcoe, Ont., reported that theAllan and Memorial Cup series this year were “the finest series financially in some time.”He told delegates Canada has had “many clubs better on paper’’ than the world champion Trail Smoke Eaters, but the B.C. team had shown “real desire.’ ’ Roxburgh promised to go into detail later on the reports of friction between Trail and some of the Swedish teams during the pre-world championship tour.Hewitt in his report, said thenumber of players registeredwith the CAHA increased to129,425 in 1960-61 from 122,427the previous season A total of 99 Canadian amateurs crossed the border to playin the United States in 1960-61, a point also expected to come up for discussion later in themeeting.
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Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Tue, May 23, 1961
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