After working for a time as a traveling grocer and tobacco salesman, Adams moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he became treasurer of the New England Maple Syrup Company.
This gave the Bruins the rights to Eddie Shore, Harry Oliver, Duke Keats, and Frank Boucher.
[1] In 1936 he transferred his stock to his son Weston Adams and minority owners Art Ross and Ralph Burkard.
[3] On May 15, 1927, Charles Adams bought out the shares of Albert H. Powell to become a minority owner and vice-president of the National League baseball club, the Boston Braves.
[6] On November 26, the National League took over control of the Braves due to the club's failure to fulfill its contractual obligations.
Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis did not allow Adams to be part of the new ownership group due to his stake in Suffolk Downs.