1904 CAHL season

1904 CAHL season
League	Canadian Amateur Hockey League
Sport	Ice hockey
Duration	January 2 – February 24, 1904
Number of teams	5
1904
Champions	Quebec Hockey Club
Top scorer	Russell Bowie (27 goals)

The 1904 Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL) season was the sixth season of the league. Teams played an eight-game schedule. This was a tumultuous year as Ottawa resigned in February and defaulted four games. The Quebec Hockey Club placed first to take the championship. Quebec did not play for the Stanley Cup.

Also, prior to the start of the season a rival hockey league, the Federal Amateur Hockey League was started, with the Montreal Wanderers taking most of the 'Little Men of Iron' from the Montreal Hockey Club.

League business

Executive

• Harry Trihey, Shamrocks (President)
• F. Stocking, Quebec (1st Vice-President)
• J. P. Dickson ( 2nd Vice-President)
• Fred McRobie, Montreal (Secretary-Treasurer)

As the Wanderers had signed players from Montreal, it was forbidden for teams to play games against FAHL teams, and for team officials to participate in FAHL activities.

Season

Highlights

This season saw several impressive rookies including Frank Patrick for Montreal Victorias, Ernie (Moose) Johnson for Montreal and Alf Smith and Jim McGee for Ottawa.

The season started out with Ottawa winning their first four games. However, in their third game against the Victorias, the Ottawa team arrived 1½ hours late. The game was called at midnight, with Ottawa ahead 4–1. After a game where the Shamrocks arrived late in Ottawa, the League levied fines against the Shamrocks and Ottawa, and ordered the Ottawa-Victorias game to be replayed. Despite a threat from Mr. Dickson of Ottawa that Ottawa would resign if the game was to be replayed, the League continued to demand that the game be played. The Ottawa club offered to play it if it had a bearing on the league championship, but this was not acceptable to the league. In the end, Ottawa resigned from the league and the league considered the final four games to be forfeits. This overshadowed a great season from Quebec, which won the CAHL season with a record of 5–1 (plus two wins by forfeit).

Final standings

Team	Games Played	Wins	Losses	Ties	Goals For	Goals Against
Quebec Hockey Club	6	5	1	0	50	37
Montreal Victorias	8	5	3	0	75	48
Montreal Hockey Club	7	2	5	0	34	49
Montreal Shamrocks	7	0	7	0	32	74
Ottawa Hockey Club‡	4	4	0	0	32	15

^‡ Resigned from league.

Stanley Cup challenges

Further information: 1903–04 Ottawa Hockey Club season

Ottawa would leave the CAHL in mid-season, leaving Quebec to win the league. The Stanley Cup did not pass to the Quebec Bulldogs based on their league championship. The Cup trustees decided that the Cup went with Ottawa. Quebec refused to make a challenge for the Stanley Cup, arguing that the Cup belonged to the CAHL season winner.

Winnipeg vs. Ottawa

Before they resigned from the CAHL, Ottawa HC defended the Cup against the Winnipeg Rowing Club in a best two-of-three series played in Ottawa 9–1,2–6,2–0 (2–1).

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
December 30, 1903	Ottawa HC	9–1	Winnipeg Rowing Club	Aberdeen Pavilion, Ottawa
January 1, 1904	Winnipeg Rowing Club	6–2	Ottawa HC
January 4, 1904	Ottawa HC	2–0	Winnipeg Rowing Club
Ottawa wins best-of-three series 2 games to 1

December 30, 1903

Ottawa (9)			Winnipeg (1)
Player	G	Pos	Player	G
John "Bouse" Hutton		G	Art Brown
Harvey Pulford, Capt		P	Percy E. Brown
Arthur Moore		CP	S. Crawford Richards
Harry Westwick	4	RO	Joe Hall
Frank McGee	3	C	Billy Breen, Capt
Suddy Gilmour	1	LW	Billy Bawlf	1
Alf Smith	1	RW	Clint E. Bennest
Jim McGee		sub	Claude Borland
Billy Gilmour		sub	Harry Kirby
Referee – Harry Trihey Umpires – William A. Northey, C. J. Hanratty

Source: Montreal Gazette

January 1, 1904

Ottawa (2)			Winnipeg (6)
Player	G	Pos	Player	G
John "Bouse" Hutton		G	Art Brown
Harvey Pulford, Capt		P	Percy E. Brown
Arthur Moore		CP	Eric Hamber
Harry Westwick	1	RO	Joe Hall	1
Frank McGee		C	Billy Breen, Capt	2
Suddy Gilmour		LW	Billy Bawlf	2
Alf Smith	1	RW	Claude Borland	1
Referee – Harry Trihey Umpires – M. J. McCrory, C. J. Hanratty

Source: Montreal Gazette

January 4, 1904

Ottawa (2)			Winnipeg (0)
Player	G	Pos	Player	G
John "Bouse" Hutton		G	Art Brown
Harvey Pulford, Capt		P	Percy E. Brown
Arthur Moore		CP	Eric Hamber
Harry Westwick		RO	Joe Hall
Frank McGee	1	C	William Breen, Capt
Suddy Gilmour	1	LW	Billy Bawlf
Billy Gilmour		RW	Claude Borland
Referee – Harry Trihey Umpires – M. J. McCrory, C. J. Hanratty

Source: Montreal Gazette

Exhibitions

After the season, the Montreal Victorias travelled to New York city, to play against Brooklyn Crescents and the New York Wanderers. The Victorias tied Brooklyn 8–8 and lost to the Wanderers 6–4.

Schedule and results

Month	Day	Visitor	Score	Home	Score
Jan.	2	Victorias	18	Shamrocks	2
	2	Montreal	3	Quebec	9
	9	Victorias	6	Ottawa	10
	9	Quebec	13	Shamrocks	5
	16	Ottawa	8	Montreal	3
	16	Victorias	12	Quebec	5
	20	Shamrocks	3	Montreal	8
	23	Victorias	8	Montreal	5
	30	Shamrocks	6	Quebec	8
	30†	Ottawa	4	Victorias	1
Feb.	6	Quebec	6	Montreal	4
	6	Shamrocks	5	Ottawa	10
	13	Victorias	12	Shamrocks	7
	17	Montreal	5	Shamrocks	4
	20 (††)	Quebec	9	Victorias	7
	24	Montreal	6	Victorias	11
	–	Montreal		Ottawa
	–	Ottawa		Shamrocks
	–	Quebec		Ottawa
	–	Ottawa		Quebec

† Ordered to be replayed but never replayed as Ottawa resigned from league.

†† Quebec clinches league championship.

Player statistics

Goaltending averages

Note: GP = Games played, GA = Goals against, SO = Shutouts, GAA = Goals against average

Name	Club	GP	GA	SO	GAA
Hutton, John Bouse	Ottawa	4	15		3.8
Nichol, Jim	Victorias	8	48		6.0
Moran, Paddy	Quebec	6	37		6.2
Waugh, Oliver	Montreal	5	32		6.4
Brophy, Fred	Montreal	1	8		8.0
Mike Kenny	Shamrocks	4	35		8.8
S. Price	Montreal	1	9		9.0
James Cloran	Shamrocks	3	39		13.0

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Game played, G = Goals scored

Name	Club	GP	G
Bowie, Russell	Victorias	8	27
Jordan, Herb	Quebec	6	19
Russell, Blair	Victorias	8	17
Howard, Cavie	Victorias	6	16
McGee, Frank	Ottawa	4	12
Sargent, Grover	Montreal	6	11
Power, Joe	Quebec	6	10
Coulson, Herbert	Montreal	6	8
Smith, Alf	Ottawa	4	8
Foulis, Colin	Shamrocks	6	7

Stanley Cup engraving

The following Ottawa Hockey Club players and staff were members of the Stanley Cup winning team. 1904 Ottawa Hockey Club Silver Sevens

Players

  Forwards

• Frank McGee(rover)
• Alf Smith (also played cover point-Playing-Coach)
• Hamilton Billy Gilmour
• Sutherland Suddy Gilmour
• Harry 'Rat' Westwick
• Scott&

  Defencemen

• Harvey Pulford (point-Captain)
• James McGee (point-cover point)
• Arthur Moore(cover point)

  Goaltenders

• John "Bouse" Hutton

Coaching and administrative staff

• Percy M. Butler (President), Robert T. "Bob" Shillington (manager)
• Patrick Baskerville (treasurer), Thomas D'Arcy McGee (secretary)
• Halder Kirby (club doctor), Llewellyn Bates (Vice President)
• Chauncy Kirby, Martin Rosenthal, Charles Sparks (directors)
• Mac McGilton (Ass't Trainer), Pete Green (trainer)
• no official team picture, has been found for 1904 Ottawa

Stanley Cup engraving

Cyclone Taylor scratched 'Fred W. Taylor' over the official engraving of 'OTTAWA 1904/Ottawa vs Wanderers'.

• &unknown first name.

Montreal Wanderers vs. Ottawa

A two-game series between the Montreal Wanderers from the FAHL and Ottawa from the CAHL was arranged, for the Stanley Cup. The teams played the first game in Montreal to a tie of 5–5. Montreal refused to play overtime, demanding that the game be considered a no-contest and proposed that the series start over as a best two-of-three series. The Cup trustees demanded that the series continued as scheduled and the Wanderers abandoned the challenge.

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
March 2, 1904	Ended in a 5–5 tie			Montreal Arena
Ottawa wins series; Montreal is disqualified for refusing to play second game in Ottawa.

According to the Gazette, the game saw "the dirtiest game ever seen between two senior teams at the Arena." Thirty-six penalties were called. Thomas Leahy was injured and replaced by Ken Mallen. James Strachan, president of the Wanderers was quoted as saying that the Wanderers would not go to Ottawa and play with Dr. Kearns as referee. Ottawa took a 2–0 lead, before the Wanderers scored five in a row. The Ottawas came back with three, the final goal by Frank McGee.

March 2, 1904

Ottawa (5)			Montreal (5)
Player	G	Pos	Player	G
John "Bouse" Hutton		G	Billy Nicholson
Jim McGee		P	Billy Strachan
Alf Smith		CP	Billy Bellingham
Harry Westwick	2	R	Thomas Leahy, Ken Mallen	1 1
Frank McGee	1	C	Jack Marshall	1
Billy Gilmour	1	RW	Jimmy Gardner	1
Suddy Gilmour	1	LW	Cecil Blatchford	1
Referee - Dr. Kearns Umpires - Stevens, Baskerville

Source: Montreal Gazette

The Wanderers demanded a replay of the game to be held in Montreal, which Ottawa refused. The series was cancelled, with Ottawa retained the Stanley Cup championship. Ottawa then joined FAHL in the offseason. | |}

Brandon Wheat City vs. Ottawa

Brandon Wheat City Hockey Club, the Manitoba League champion challenged for the Cup in a best two-of-three series. It was scheduled only days after the Montreal Wanderers challenge (Coleman page. 98–99)

Date	Winning Team	Score	Losing Team	Location
March 9, 1904	Ottawa	6–3	Brandon	Dey's Arena
March 11, 1904	Ottawa	9–3	Brandon
Ottawa HC wins best-of-three series two games to none Source: (Coleman page 98–99)

March 9, 1904

Brandon 3			Ottawa 6
Player	G	Pos	Player	G
Harry "Dutchie" Morrison		G	John "Bouse" Hutton
Lester Patrick		P	Harvey Pulford, Capt.
Lorne Hanna, Coach	2	CP	Jim McGee
George Smith		R	Harry Westwick
Jackie Brodie	1	C	Frank McGee	5
Lorne Laidlaw		RW	Alf Smith	1
Harry Bright	1	LW	Suddy Gilmour
Referee - Dr. Kearns Umpires - Stevens, Baskerville

• Spare - Brandon - Robert Cross (Captain), William Hopper, S.G Lowe, H. Breton, F. Wheelan
• Spares - Ottawa - Billy Gilmour - RW, Arthur Moore - D. (Coleman page 98–99).
• Referee F. Chittick - Umpirers Senator Watson, William Foran

March 11, 1904

Brandon 3			Ottawa 9
Player	G	Pos	Player	G
Harry "Dutchie" Morrison		G	John "Bouse" Hutton
Lester Patrick		P	Harvey Pulford, Capt.
Lorne Hanna, Coach		CP	Jim McGee
George Smith	1	R	Harry Westwick	1
Jackie Brodie	1	C	Frank McGee	3
Lorne Laidlaw	1	RW	Alf Smith	4
Harry Bright	1	LW	Suddy Gilmour	1
Referee - Dr. Kearns Umpires - Stevens, Baskerville

• Spare - Brandon - Robert Cross (Captain), William Hopper, S.G Lowe, H. Breton, F. Wheelan
• Spares - Ottawa - Billy Gilmour - RW, Arthur Moore - D
• Referee F. Chittick - Umpirers Senator Watson, William Foran

See also

• 1904 FAHL season
• 1904–05 FAHL season - Stanley Cup Champions Ottawa Silver Sevens
• List of Stanley Cup champions

References

Bibliography

• Coleman, Charles L. (1966). The Trail of the Stanley Cup, Vol. 1, 1893–1926 inc.
• Podnieks, Andrew (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. ISBN 1-55168-261-3.
• Shea, Kevin; Wilson, John Jason (2006). Lord Stanley: The Man Behind the Cup. Fenn Publishing Company, Ltd. ISBN 1-55168-281-8.