John Watters

Although he was not in the Leith team that won the Adams Shield for the British Teams Championship in 1903 and 1904, John Watters was a member of the East of Scotland team in the 1904 Inter-Association competition when just 19-years-of-age. He also won representative honours with the Edinburgh District team and in 1907 was the in the Leith team that beat Dunfermline Carnegie to win the Scottish Team Championship.

Watters made his Scotland début in the 1907 International Championship against England, Wales, and Ireland, and in 1910 was in the Leith team that lost to the Birmingham Athletic Institute in the final of the Adams Shield. Watters won the Scottish team title with Leith on two more occasions, and shared the Scottish individual title with H. F. Neil of the Falkirk Camelon club in 1912. Watters was the outright champion the following year, and in 1914 he collected another team title, as a member of the Edinburgh Stockbridge team.

Watters became a gymnastics instructor after World War I, and in 1924 guided the Leith Market Hall team to the final of the Scottish Championship against the Dundee Amateur Gymnastic Society. Watters was also a gymnastics judge.