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Four in SudburyMemorial Cup games sharedWINNIPEG (CP) - Directors of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) gave official approval during the weekend to splitting next spring’s Memorial Cup series between two Ontario centres.The centres, recommended by the CHA Junior A Series, are Sudbury and Sault SteMofjoThe CAHA agreed as an experiment to try the split location arrangement for the national junior championship, featuring winners of the three major junior leagues.The CAHA said it is too difficult to sell seven games in seven days in one City. In next year’s playoff competition, four games will te played in Sudbury and three in Sault Ste Marie.Gordon Jurkes, retiring CAHA executive director, said that if the experiment is successful, Ihc Memorial Cup may be played In two sites in future.The CAHA directors also approved a number of tours for international teams, such as Moscow Selects, Prague Spartaks, the Yugoslav national team and a Soviet midget team.team, would have received from the series. They pulled oul because a power failure at the St. John’s rink prevented the ice from being cleaned off between periods.CAHA president Gordon Renwick of Cambridge, Ont., said: “A few teams pulled off the ice in the midst of games I his year and we simply can’t allow that to continue.”old Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League (MMJHL1 for Junior A status and associate membership. Rcnsvick said the MMJKL would be welcome if it accepted Junior B status.The MMJHI, has alwaysoperated outside CAHA jurisdiction because it won't w take Junior B status. As a result, the MMJHL Temains * barred from taking part in p any CAHA competition and in the Canada Winter Games for a Junior B learns. ^Barber clips fieldKenwick also said a workshop wilt be held Oct. 21-23 in Ottawa “to determine the status of women’s hockey in Canada.” The delegates—not necessarily wcmen- wili be chosen by representatives of provincial mul leiriloiial governments and CAHA branches, but will be nominated by female teams.The CAHA constitution now says only males mny play In games under Its jurisdiction. Several court cases have been brought by parents wanting to get their daughters on boys’ teams without disqualifying the teamThe CAHA directors turned down an appeal from Shediak, N.B., Capitals who pulled out of last spring's Eastern Canada Hardy Cup final and forfeited $2,346. The series was awarded to St. John's, Nfld., who were leading 3-1 in games at the time.The funds were the share the Capitals, an intermediateThe directors approved plans for a magazine to be distributed free to all minor hockey players, an instructional film, and a skills development showdown competition leading to a nationally-televised championship.A total of |463,000 has been set aside for this season for the CAHA’s national development program for players, coaches and referees.The directors rejected the latesl bid by the eight-year-NAPA, Calif. (AP-Milter Barber did it with consistency, winning his 10th tournament title just as he bad accumulated $1.2 million in his 19 years on the pro golf tour.“It seems like every lime I’ve been in contention lately, someone comes along and burns the grass off the place,” the 46-year-old Barber said Sunday after winning the $200,-000 Napa PGA tournament.Howard Twitly, a 29-year-old pro from Arizona, came up with a searing 62, second best round on the tour this year, but it wasn't enough In beat Barber who finished witha seven-under-par 66 on the 6,870-yard Silverado Country Club North course.Barber posted four sub-par rounds, including a 66 on the second day, for his 72-hole total of 272 which beat George Archer by two strokes and Twitty by three. Archer, who led the field by four strokes after a 63 Saturday, stmgged to a 73 Sunday.Twitty began the tournament with a 73 and went Into the final round 12 strokes from the top before breaking the course record set byJohnny Miller in last year’s s tournament and tied by Archer on Saturday. ^The only score to better Y Twitty’s 10-under-par round t this year was the all-time lour J record 59 posted by Al Geiber-gur in the Memphis'Open.Other tup finishers in the Napa event included Tom Watson, the Masters and British Open champion who lied for eighth and picked up $5,225, raising his season-leading money total to $310,000Barber has won only 10 tour cvents—includlng the Napa lournamenl in 1S6S—in his career, but Sunday's $40,000 victory pushed him over $100,000 in winnings for the fifth year and raised his all-time total to $1,227,901, ninth highest in the sport.Barber hadn't won a tournament since 1974 but, as he said Sunday: “You’ve got to be patient in golf.’’The bald and pudgy golfer added, in the day’s greatest understatement: I’ve come close to winning the last few years and couldn't quite make it. This means a lot to me. I'm not one of the young lions.”
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Mon, Oct 03, 1977
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