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'Tier' system gets some oppositionproposalgetsvotetodayt1I1ST. JOHN’S, Nfld. (CP) At least four of the 11 Canadian Amateur Hockey Association branches were expected to vote today on a proposal to divide junior hockey into two levels of competition. 'Other delegates to the CAHA annual meeting indicated approval of the two-tier system but some were opposed to apart of the proposal which would give $100,000 in development funds to the Western Canada League.The proposal, presented Wednesday to junior congress by the CAHA board of directors,goes before the plenary session today.In other developments Earl Dawson and A. J. (Buck) Houle, ge n e r a 1 manager of Hockey Canada, said the two or-ganizations have re-affirmed their stand to stay out of world hockey competition.On the question of international competition, Dawson told delegates nothing has changed since Canada pulled out of the 1970 world tournament after the International Ice Hockey Federation reversed a decision to allow Canada to use professionals on its national team.”“There will he no exchange visits between our national team and European countries next year,” Dawson said. “We won’t go there and they won’t come here.”However, there was still a possibility a Canadian team might compete against the United States national team, Dawson said.Houle said in an interview that Hockey Canada, the organization which operates the Canadian national team, was in complete agreement with the CAHA that Canada should stay out of international competition untilJohnsons 3-run homerwins game for PhilliesBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSDeron Johnson cracked his loth homer of the seasonWednesday night three-run shot in the ninth inning that gave Woody Fryman all the runs in Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 Victory over Montreal Expos.“I knew it was out of the park the moment it left my bat,” said Johnson.Elsewhei'e in the National League Wednesday, Atlanta Braves downed Houston Astros 8-1, New York Mets shut out St. Louis Cardinals 3-0, San Francisco Giants battered Los Angc-Giants battered Los Angeles to get even a little for the 19-3 shellacking the Dodgers handed them the night before.MAYS HITS NO. 612Willie Mays walloped his 12th homer of the year—No. 612 ot his career. That left him 102 away from Babe Ruth. Reserves Bob Taylor and Frank Johnson also hit homei'S in a 13-hit Giant attack.Bob Moose spun a four-hitter and Pittsburgh shut out Chicago.Roberto Clemente’s two-runsingle in the fifth inning gave Moose some working room and the Pirate right-hander out-duelled Cubs’ ace Ferguson Jenkins of Chatham, Ont., Moose is 4-4 while Jenkins lost his seventh game in 10 decisions.Tony Perez took over the major league home-run lead with his 17th of the season, snapping an eighth-inning tie and giving Cincinnati its victory over San Diego.The Reds collected 17 hits, including a single, double and triple by Johnny Bench.the IIHF allows the use of professionals. 'The Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union, however, will return to international competition with university teams from other countries, the CAHA was told Wednesday,The CIAU, a CAHA affiliate, missed world competition last January following the CAHA’s stand at the IIHF meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.Danny McLeod of Kingston, Ont., the CIAU representative, told delegates Canadian universities want to continue to compete with other members of the Federation International Sportive Universiade (FISU), a world-wide body representing universities in sports.Delegates from the Mari-times, British Columbia, Alberta and Northern Ontario amateur hockey associations walked out of a closed session of the junior congress late Wednesday in protest over the two-tier proposal.Western Canada League if it returned to CAHA membership, which it dropped three years ago.Ten of the 27 teams in the tier one setup would be members of the WCHL, 10 from the Ontario association and seven from the Quebec amateur association-including one from the Ontario district association.DIFFER ON MONEYJack Devine of Belleville, Ont., junior vice-president, said the paper was accepted in principle by the junior congress, but there was obvious disagreement about proposed distribution of development money expected from the National Hockey League.The proposal said $100,000 of the $377,000 in a junior development program would go to theThe QAHA league would be in tier one but four teams would be considered in a tier two category for purposes of distributing development funds.Only tier one teams would compete for the Memorial Cup,! emblematic of junior hockey supremacy.The OHA’s teams would get $50,000 and the QAHA’s seven tier one teams $35,000. Its four tier two teams would get $16,000.Tier two would be made up of seven teams from the British Columbia association, six from Alberta, four in Saskatchewan, eight ill Manitoba, four in Thun-der Bay, five in the OHA, five in- the ODHA, four in Northern Ontario, four in Newfoundland and four in the Maritimes.
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Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Thu, May 28, 1970
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