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Walter Kitchen
Born (1912-12-18)December 18, 1912
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died July 25, 1988(1988-07-25) (aged 75)[1]
Position Defence
Played for Toronto Marlboros
Toronto British Consols
National team  Canada
Playing career 1929–1936
Olympic medal record
Men's Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Team Competition

Walter Lawrence "Pud" Kitchen (December 18, 1912 – July 25, 1988) was a Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. As owner of the horse Hail To Patsy, he won the 1969 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs.[2] Kitchen was a member of the 1936 Port Arthur Bearcats, which won the silver medal for Canada in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics. In 1987 he was inducted into the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame as a member of that Olympic team.

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