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Tennis pioneer Judge Walter Martin enjoyed great success during a significant time in Canadian sports history. He played intercollegiate tennis from 1926-30, winning the team championship in both 1927 and 1928. Individually, he won both singles and doubles titles in 1928 and 1929 en route to a fifth-place ranking among Canadian players.
While playing at the national level, Walter also played intramural tennis, winning the singles championship in 1927 and 28, and was a member of the intermediate intercollegiate basketball team.
A member of the men’s athletic directorate from 1929-30, Walter won the Canadian tennis championship and was on the national Davis Cup team for many years. The son of former Saskatchewan premier and chief justice of the appeal court, William Melville Martin, Walter himself was appointed to the bench as judge of the judicial district of York, Ontario, in 1967. He was inducted into the Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1973. Walter passed away
January 24, 1977, in Toronto.
