Re: on this day: 1988

[Guren Kena <gurenkena@yahoo.com>]

This seems so long ago, yet Sentoryu is still in
there, fighting away.  I really hope he makes it back
up to Juryo this year, though I'm afraid he'll retire
when he does...

GK

BTW - I really enjoy these historic reprints, Rowan.
Thank you!


--- Rowan Klein <rowanchan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Mainichi Daily News, Saturday 27th May 1988 (Page
> 10)
> 
> US Hopeful Joins Tomozuna Stable
> 
>     An 18 year old American  sumo aspirant joined
> the Tomozuna Stable on 
> Wednesday, becoming the 15th foreign wrestler
> currently active in Japan.
>     Henry Armstrong Miller, the son of a black
> American soldier and a 
> Japanese mother, was born at Tokyo's Tachikawa Air
> Base hospital and 
> attended the American School in Japan until he was
> 8. He graduated from 
> McCluer High School in St. Louis, Missouri.
>     Standing 1.80 meters and weighing 95 kilograms,
> Miller practiced 
> American football, amateur wrestling and
> weight-lifting at the high school.
> 
>
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