The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

holds secret draft Ottawa's Jamie Masters selected by San Diego HAMILTON (CP) teams, including CincinnaIt has been learned the ti Stingers who begin opeWorld Hockey Association rations next season. draft originally planned for Wednesday, then poned, was in fact ducted Thursday in a cret telephone hookup volving the league's NHL stand criticized Jamie Masters Mariners' top pick SASKATOON (CP) Del Wilson, board chairman of the recently-formed Canadian Major Junior Hockey League, said Thursday he is disappointed in statements made Wednesday by National Hockey League president Clarence Campbell. Campbell said in New York the CMJHL is hardly in a position "to dictate the price" for talent going to the major professional leagues. seems strange that the National Hockey League can set the waiver price of players in their league or the price for the professional reverse draft, but now it is wrong for us (the CMJHL) to try and establish a fair price for our graduates," Wilson said. "We have tried in good faith to get the NHL and World Hockey Association to sit down and work out a new agreement, but Campbell has stated emphatically that the NHL is not interested in talking until the WHA pays the $195,000 owed to the Canadan Amateur Hockey Association for players signed in the 1974 amateur draft," said Wilson, owner-manager of Regina Pats of the Western Canada Hockey League.

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