 Accordingly, Kase, with sponsorship from the "New York Journal-American", organized a United States February 1957 tour by the Israeli basketball team with games played in Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.In October 1964, the New York Rangers banned the "Journal-American"'s hockey reporter, Stan Fischler, from the dressing room and press room after taking issue with one of Fischler's stories.Kase called the Rangers and informed them that "the Journal-American would not carry a single line of Rangers' news until the ban was lifted."