strictly enforced, it could mean the demise of the league in the Ottawa Valley if teams were deprived of their best players. He supported updating the residency rules to prevent mass movement of hockey players about the country, instead of the CAHA blindly approving the transfers due to the economic situation caused by the Great Depression. Duncan assembled an amateur Ottawa All-stars team of players from the National Capital Region to play an exhibition series in Europe during December 1931 and January 1932. The series included games in France, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and England; and the team included future professional Bill Cowley as a 19-year-old. In April 1932, Duncan was appointed by the CAHA to a committee to arrange international ice hockey tours with the British Ice Hockey Association (BIHA). Duncan was involved with the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada (AAU of C) from 1929 to 1932. He was named to its Olympic committee in 1929 and was chairman of the AAU of C baseball committee to decide on a national champion. He was named vice-chairman of the AAU of C committee to reorganize the National Amateur Baseball Association in 1930, and was named to the fencing committee in 1931. Other sporting interests included representing boxing from Ottawa at the Canadian Olympic Committee meetings, and serving as secretary of the junior football league in Ottawa where he represented the league at Canadian Rugby Union meetings. CAHA vice-president Duncan served as second vice-president of the CAHA from April 1932 to April 1934. He sat on the ice hockey rules committee which considered recent changes made in the National Hockey League (NHL) and whether to implement them in the CAHA. Duncan was elected first vice-president in April 1934. He sat on the CAHA's registration committee which oversaw player transfer requests and implemented new regulations to prevent regional shifts of talent. The CAHA subsequently chose not to grant transfers between its branches after December during the playing season, in an effort to stop the "hockey tourist" who moved about the country to play in mercantile leagues. Duncan then issued suspensions for players who had not completed proper transfers and declined any new requests. Duncan was in charge of organizing the 1935 Allan Cup final, and arranged for the 1935 Memorial Cup champions to play a tour in the United Kingdom to coincide with the Canada men's national ice hockey team tour of Europe