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Says Ron Butlin4Sheer Nonsenser•A-.By THE CANADIAN PRESSA , statement by t NHL president. Clarence Campbell, that players covered by the new Ca-nadian Hockey Association could find their arrival in professional hockey delayed or complicated, has drawn .sharp reaction from CHA operators in both East and West.In Calgary, Ron Butlin, president of the CHA, said Wednesday Campbell’s statement Tuesday after a National Hockey League semi-annual meeting is *‘sheer nonsense.”He said two NHL teams have already been in touch with him to place players on CHA teams “becaifce it is the best competition for a boy in Western Canada.”He said three players recommended by the two NHL teams will play in the Western Canada Hockey League this season. The WCHL is affiliated with the CHA. Butlin said the teams involved asked that their names be withheld .He Laid Campbell had “obviously timed his statement under p r' ssure from the CAHA,” which, he said, “is running scared because we are getting every good hockey player in the West into our training camps.”But in Windsor, Ont., Lloyd Pollock, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, said Butlin was “trying to set smokescreen to keep his league looking healthy.”“I notice he doesn’t say anything about who the boys are or where they are playing. I think the fact that he made this kind of statement shows how much the NHL has scared him.” Pollock said Campbell’s statement would likely make “someboys and their parents think twice about joining the new league.” -*■ ■Bombers,i*Eskimos Post Winsdose to 450 people were on hand at Henderson Park last evening as the 1968 Lethbridge Minor Football League season got under way.All four teams saw action in two outstanding games.The Eskimos and Stamped-ers got things started with the Eskimos coming up with a 15-2 triumph. The second game saw the Bombers trim the Lions 13-3.John Fellows scored two touchdowns for the Eskimos. One of which went 80 yards-on a pass-and-run combination with quarter-back Roger Tanawa. A safety touch and a single accounted for the other points. Stampeders got their points on a safety touch.Les Caiman and Frank Koch played a strong game for the winners. Koch, however, was injured and may miss a number of games.John Kostiuk and Bob Taylor picked up major scores for the Bombers. Frank Hoffarth kicked a convert.Greg Hamilton scored the Lions’ points on a field goal. Eskimos had one touchdown of 85 yards called back.LETHBRIDGERACE MEETSeptember 20th thru 30th91 RACING 1 DAYS2:0(I P.M.: | DAILYJLethbridge Exhibition TrackPari-Mutuel BettingButlin said the CHA has had no problem attracting players, and when the WCHL opened training, 483 juniors turned out to try for a spot on one of the eight teams in the league.The WCHL has teams in Oal-g a r y, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Swift- - Current, Ekevan, Flin Flon, Brandon and Winnipeg.It was formed last spring with Butlin as president. At that time the league also announced formation of the ” CHA also with Butlin as president.ONTARIO TEAMS JOINShortly afterwards, the Western Ontario Junior A league affiliated with the CHA, bringing teams from Sarnia, St. Thomas, Chatham, Guelph, Brantford and Stratford into tne field.Frank Basso, president of the Ontario league and vice-president of the CHA, labelled Campbell’s statements “hogwash” and said the NHL presklent was trying to “scare” players away from joining CHA teams.He said hockey is being monopolized by certain groups of people in Canada and money machines in the United States.He questioned how the NHL and CAHA could approve an age change for juniors when “all the teams concerned were against it.”The dispute ever age limits was at the base of the breakaway action by the western group.Basso charged NHL teams based in the U.S. are costing Canadian taxpayers “a lot of money” by grabbing off players from Canada’s national team. GIVE NOTHING BACK “It costs Canadian taxpayers a lot of money to get our national team to the stage where they are competitive against the Rus-'sians. The U.S. teams take these players away and give nothing back. Now we have to start rebuilding the national team all over again ”Minnesota North Stars acquired five players from Canada’s national team this season.Stan Stokes, president of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association, said the OMHA does not intend to suspend any players or teams who supply players to the Western Ontario league. He said no direction had been received from the Ontario Hockey Association.“Until we’re directed to suspend these people, we’re keeping our hands off the situation,” he said.Pollock had said earlier that any player from the OMHA “who goes up to play with a team in the outlaw league would have trouble coming back into the OMHA.”Pollock said the subject of suspensions will come up when the CAHA executive meets in I Montreal this weekend.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Thu, Sep 26, 1968
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