Walter Kitchen

Walter Lawrence Kitchen, known as Pud, was a Canadian ice hockey defenseman, born in Toronto on 18 December 1912 and died in 1988. He won the silver medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics as a member of the Port Arthur Bearcats, the club that represented Canada at the Games. He played six matches in the tournament and scored two goals before an injury kept him out near the end, and he carried the Canadian flag at the opening ceremony. After his playing career he turned to horse racing, and his horse Hail to Patsy won the 1969 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. In 1987 he was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame as a member of that Olympic team.