Walter Miller (wrestler)

Walter Miller was the middleweight wrestling champion in 1919.[1][2]

Biography

He was born in Australia and contracted rheumatic fever as a child.[3][4]

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References

  1. ^ "Championship Wrestling Match on Card for Thursday". Los Angeles Times. May 6, 1919. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/331756312.html?dids=331756312:331756312&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=May+06%2C+1919&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Championship+Wrestling+Match+on+Card+for+Thursday.&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2008-12-12. "This wrestling bird, who will light into Walter Miller for the middleweight title at the Los Angeles Athletic Club Thursday night, reached the city at 11:30 ..." 
  2. ^ "Miller Is Still Champion". Los Angeles Times. May 9, 1919. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/330053492.html?dids=330053492:330053492&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=May+09%2C+1919&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=MILLER+IS+STILL+CHAMPION.&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2008-12-12. "Walter Miller is still the middleweight wrestling champion of the world. Last night at the Los Angeles Athletic Club the peerless mat expert and grappling ..." 
  3. ^ Greyvenstein, Chris (1981). The Fighters. ISBN 909238626X. http://books.google.com/books?id=IR8MAAAAYAAJ&q. "Walter Miller was considered the middleweight wrestling champion of the world. This remarkable man suffered from rheumatic fever as a child and until he ..." 
  4. ^ Georgakis, Steve. Sport and the Australian Greek. ISBN 094920367X. http://books.google.com/books?id=ObaBAAAAMAAJ&q. "Due to the rise of the sport in the USA, Dick Lean imported Walter Miller, middleweight champion of the world ..."