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The Senators visited the Quakers at the Philadelphia Arena. The Quakers themselves were new to the place, having just relocated from Pittsburgh where they had played five seasons as the Pirates.
The Ottawa Citizen (March 4, 1931, p. 11) referred to the Quakers as “the second Ottawa team”. The Quakers’ Harold Darragh, Syd Howe, Wally Kilrea, Gerry Lowrey, Ren Manners, Al Shields and Rodger Smith had all played in the Ottawa City Hockey League, Darragh, Howe and Smith for the Gunners, Kilrea, Manners and Shields for the Montagnards, and Lowrey for the University of Ottawa.
Syd Howe had started out at Glebe Collegiate, then moved up to the Gunners. In 1929-30 he played for the Senators and the IHL ‘s London Panthers. After the Quakers folded the Leafs picked him up but sent him to the IHL Syracuse Stars. He was back with the Senators for their final two seasons and accompanied them to St Louis when the became the Eagles. After they folded the Red Wings took him on, and Detroit is where he made his name. He played twelve seasons with them and won three Stanley Cups. His last stop was with the Ottawa Senators of the QSHL in 1946-47.
Phiadelphia’s head coach was Cooper Smeaton, originally from Carleton Place. He left his post as NHL referee-in-chief to take up the job. After one season behind the bench he went back to refereeing. He was made a Stanley Cup trustee in 1946 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a referee in 1961.
Scoring:
First period: no scoring.
Second period: goals by Hec Kilrea (Ottawa) and Harold Starr (Ottawa).
Third period: goals by Cliff Barton (Philadelphia) and James Jarvis (Philadelphia).
Final score: 2 – 2.
Montreal Senior Group:
Game 3, November 17: McGill 2 – 0 Victorias
Game 4, November 17: Canadiens 1 – 3 Montreal AAA
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