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Wally Watts
Walter "Wally" Watts (17 June 1872 – 9 July 1946) was an Australian sportsman, best known as the oldest player to have played a senior game in the West Australian Football League (WAFL).
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1872, Watts moved to Fremantle, Western Australia, in the 1890s, representing both the Imperials Football Club, and a number of Fremantle representative cricket teams which played against touring Victorian and Australian sides.〔(Cricket Loses Great Stalwart ) – ''The Sunday Times''. Published 14 July 1946. Retrieved from (Trove ), 15 January 2012.〕 Watts later moved to Midland Junction, where he worked as a blacksmith for the Midland Railway of Western Australia at the Midland Railway Workshops.〔(Walter WATTS ) – AIF. Retrieved 15 January 2012.〕 He was a foundation member of the Midland First Grade cricket team (later Midland-Swan and Midland-Guildford), and was responsible for the improvement of the Midland Oval for the use of both the cricket and football team. The scoreboard at the ground is named after Watts.〔(The Midland Oval ). Retrieved 15 January 2012.〕 Watts played for the cricket club for over thirty years, and as late as the 1927–28 season, when he took a five-wicket haul against North Fremantle at the age of 55, with help from a sticky wicket.〔(CRICKET ) – ''The Western Mail''. Published 3 November 1927. Retrieved 15 January 2012.〕
Watts was also a noted player of Australian rules football for the Midland Junction Football Club, playing alongside several of his sons. He played his final game, against on 5 August 1916, at the age of 44 years and 49 days, making him the oldest person to play senior football in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He had been called out of retirement for one final game due to a player shortage at the club caused by a large number of players enlisting in the military.〔(Oldest & Youngest WAFL players ) – wafootball.com.au. Retrieved 15 January 2012.〕 Watts and another "old-timer", Dick Hardie, replaced two of Watts' sons, Frederick and Albert, who were injured, in the team.〔(FOOTBALL ) – ''The West Australian''. Published 8 August 1916. Retrieved from (Trove ), 15 January 2012.〕 In December 1917, Watts enlisted in the Australian Army, and was made a 2nd Corporal in the Railway Unit, Section Three, of the 15th Battalion. He returned in 1918 and was discharged on 24 September 1918. After retiring from the Railway Workshops, Watts invented and patented a number of track devices, including for a universal movement switch.〔(WEST AUSTRALIAN PATENT ) – ''The West Australian''. Published 2 June 1928. Retrieved from (Trove ), 15 January 2012.〕 He also represented the Midland-Guildford Cricket Club on the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA), andserved on a number of committees. Watts died in July 1946 at his home in Midland.〔(LATE WALTER WATTS ) – ''The West Australian''. Published 12 July 1946. Retrieved from (Trove ), 15 January 2012.〕 Watts was married to Alice,〔 had nine sons〔 and three daughters. Five of his sons played First Grade cricket, and another three played senior football.〔 Albert Watts, one of his sons, captained for four seasons, and captained Western Australia in eight matches.〔(Albert Watts (Perth) ) – FullPointsFooty. Retrieved 15 January 2012.〕 Two of his granddaughters later married Laurie Bandy and Ted Tyson, both noted sportsmen during the 1930s and 1940s.〔
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