In 1926–27 Manners joined the senior Montagnards of the
Ottawa City Hockey League and led the league in goals two years later. Manners played for the NHL's
Pittsburgh Pirates during the
1929–30 season, collecting three goals and two assists in 33 games. He then became a member of the Quakers when the franchise was relocated to Philadelphia in September 1930. Manners only played four games for the Philadelphia club and spent most of his time with the Niagara Falls Cataracts of the
Ontario Professional Hockey League. In 1931, he was reinstated as an amateur and played in a few leagues in the Ottawa area before joining the Montagnards for one last season in 1933–34. He died on December 26, 1944, when he collapsed while waiting for a
streetcar. ==Career statistics==