Walter was one of Midhurst’s greatest sports supporters and displayed notable sportsmanship whether playing softball, curling, horseshoes, checkers, nine pins, crokinole, crib, horseshoes, curling or softball.  He enjoyed a commendable curling career, and in 1930 won the Ontario Championship in Crokinole with Hunter Russell as his partner.  Walter was inducted into the Vespra Recreation Hall of Fame in 1989.