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Canadaimage istaking real beatingb\ MW BI\KLF\OTTAWA (IT) — The decision of the Cana-dian Amateur Hockey Association not to send a team to the world junior c h a m p 1 o n ships in Finland next month “just makes us look like asses overseas again/’Sport Canada director Lou Lefaivesaid Friday.The decision could also jeopardize two exhibition games Hockey Canada has arranged in Finland for the team it is sending to the Izvestia hockey tournament in Moscow, Lefaive said inan interview. •The CAHA has withdrawn from the world junior tournament in Helsinki Dec. 26-Jan. 3 because its request formoney from Sport Canada was rejected and junior team owners were hes11 a nt to supp 1 y players.The withdrawal came little more than a month after the CAHA said it would send a team. Previously it said it did not plan to put a team in the junior championship.Last year Canada was represented by the New West minster, B.C., Bruins. After their dismal performance, Hockey Canada decided that no more clubs would be allowed and told the ( AHA to prepare a national team for further world championships.That team would have to be open to all hockey players under age 21, not just those playing major junior hockey.Fighter injuredNEW YORK (AP — Willie Classen of PuertoRico was fighting for hislife todav in BellevueWHospital after suffering head injuries and possible brain damage following a lOth-round knockout Friday night atthe hands of unbeaten Wilfred Sevpion of New York.(lasse n, a 1 5 9-pounder, had taken an eight count with 15 seconds remaining in the ninth round in the middleweight fight at M a d i s o n S q u a r eGardens Felt Forum. When the bell sounded to start the 10th and final round, the 29-year-old Classen remained on his stool.The Puerto Ricans handlers, headed by manager Marco Minuto, lifted him from tin1 seat and pushed him out of the corner. Classen never raised his hands and was caught with two rights by the 156-pound Seypion, who registered his 13th knockout in as many b iuts.The international he Hockey Federation can fine the CAHA $7,500 and relegate it to the sec- i ond division of world junior hotkey forwithdrawing from the Helsinki tournament.Lefaive said Sport | Minister Steve Paproski wasn't going to go along with a last-minute effort by the CAHA to send a v* kteam for the chain- \ pionships ,The CAHA asked last r month for $50,000 for ^ the team which was to be s Peterborough Petes, the Memorial Cup chain- f pions, bolstered by f players from other f squads. |Paproski said the request came long after his » department's budget was | set and, while the ( AH A \ was accommodated last ;l year on a last-rninute re- f quest, it had known that \it had to give earlier \notification this year.The CAHA also ran ( into a stumbling block | from other junior (; owners who demanded hefty insurance policies to cover any players they released for the world junior tournament.“This vear we were right back to exactly the same thing. Lefaivesaid.He said the IIHF is especially annoyed with the CAIIA because it changed the world juniorschedule to accommodate the Canadians only to have them dwithdraw.
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Sat, Nov 24, 1979
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