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Page THE HERALD Wednesday May Geminis may play in sixteam division The Georgetown Gcmlnls and Acton Sabres may be competing a six league six team division of the Central unlor B league if one of the proposals made at the associations annual meeting held at the Royal York Hotel In Toronto Saturday carries In all there were six proposals made for realignment of the 12 team league However as it stands now it appears the league will stay with the 12 team even schedule used last year or go with a twodivision Gem president Bob Gird wood said the Centra League executive members will meet later this month and decide which route to take If the split league through the Gems would play against the Sabres Blues Dixie Beehives Slrectsville Derby and Brampton 1 1 gan Chevys They would only ploy regular season games against those clubs The addition of the Blues will mean the Gems and Sabres would be up against topnight club This past year the Blues surprised all the favorites by winning the Ontario Cup gold medal The Derby are of course a powerhouse squad going lo the Sutherland Cup final the last three years They finally succeeded in taking It all this year by wiping out St Catharines In four straight games in the final The only thing thai would hurt us In that alignment is losing Milton Glrdwood said They are a town ap proximately the same sue and arc close by However the Gem president said he likes the proposed realignment as it would mean less travelling for his club and also give Ihcm wo ncirby rivals in Brampton and Another remote possibility is the league having 13 cams next year with Owen Sound being he ad If that proposal goes through It would mean equal schedule against all 13 However also said that Is very in In getting a tier two Junior A club The proposal is that would inherit an existing lwo lCDm disband the club they had this year Originally the officials wanted to have their present club raised to tier two A but the go for It The Central Junior A loop will have o decide by May exactly which way to go In other business coming out of the meetings which would be relevant to the three teams In town a proposal which would change how the association receives lis money was defeated Last year only learns which made the playoffs had to pay money back to the Under the present system clubs competing in the playoffs pay seven and a half per cent of their gate receipts back to the OHA for services rendered This meant that neither the Gems or Sabres had to pay a cent back to the However the association made a pretty penny from the Georgetown Raiders who played In front of huge crowds in playing three series before winning the Intermediate title Under the defeated proposal it would have received 10 per cent of a teams gate receipts during the regular season games for first round pin off games for inter finals and a game for the ultimate playoff final for the junior loop In the Intermediate A loop learns would have had pay back to the for regular season games for first round playoff gimcs for he Inter league final and for the ultimate final suspended lor a game The rate the Tost wont be back two men up for post Bob Tost will not be back is Georgetown general manager four years the post 1 still serve in some capacity with the team Tost However it will be in the background way in the background Tost is the only man who has served in the position as general manager since the creation four years ago I ve had a lot of years in hotkey he said It about lime I started spending a few evenings home Tost said before he joined Gems he served 12 years in the Georgetown District Minor Hockey Association eight more with the Support Group He said he will not rejoin cither of the minor hockey groups in any capacity next year No I won be too involv In any form of hockey next year he said It is going to he nice tospend some time at The retiring general man it Is about lime that someone new look over the helm of the earn I been with it for four years it about time to get someone fresh in there Last withtheGems competing In a 12 team loop for the first time Tost said he only missed one game and only about a half dozen In his years with the Gems New president Bob Gird wood said that Tests ab sence Is going lo leave a big hole in the organization but that he was not too surprised that he Is stepping down CONSUMING I dldn realize just how consuming a job the general manager post is until I talked to Bob said It is a very hard job for one man to do Gird wood said that he has talked to two men about the The men I have ap proached about the job arc bolli local guys he said Neither of them has been with the club in previous Glrdwood said thai It should in answer from one of the two men before the week is out said that after he names new general mam Ihc next chore will be find for the squid The said that ilirold who conch the le im for the last half of list will be the first one approached Ihc job He is on holidays right now If Harold is not interested in reluming the new general manager and 1 will job but he is quite ready have lo start from scratch in In their names looking for a new coach BOB TOST motion was defeated but that he expects the will figure out another formula which would have teams paying fees during the regular season and table it before next season Early this past the Haiders had tied game against Port called because the referees of the game said that overtime was not allowed to be played Previous to that the In A loop had played tominute overtime periods to try and break deadlock This season the OHA is going to discourage its leagues from playing overtime games However it will be up to individual leagues to decide If hey want However if Ihey decide to institute an over lime it be a 10minute affair fit is still tied at that point each club will be awarded one point This past year leagues had the choice of ploying any form of over time thev decided on Thii past year It cost the Georgetown Raiders on a couple of occasions to buy back players who had been GEORGETOWN MINOR HOCKEY SUPPORT GROUP ANNOUNCES ANNUAL FATHER SON BANQUET Saturday May 5 500 Holy Cross Church Hall FOR INFORMATION CALL Sheila Dixon 8775272 throughout all OHA leagues This year is will cost teams to lift a one game suspension off a player BUDGET The budget report showed that the organization had a deficit this past A major chunk of the loss was consumed by money going towards getting new equipment for referees and having closer supervision of officials The budget showed that went to buying standardized equipment for the officials It la a cost that will not show up again for many years There was also more spent this past season than the year before on supervising of the referees Each OHA referee had a supervisor inspect his work for two matches There was much discussion at the meeting about the possibility or changing the Import restriction on Junior clubs However it was decided hat each club would still be allowed 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