Clarence Weber
{{short description|Australian wrestler}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
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|birth_name = Clarence Alfred Weber
|birth_date = 27 March 1882
|birth_place = Brighton, Melbourne, Australia
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|death_date = 20 November 1930 (aged 48)
|death_place = Mont Albert, Melbourne, Australia
|names = Clarence Weber
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|billed = Melbourne, Australia
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Clarence Alfred Weber (27 March 1882 – 20 November 1930) was an Australian athlete, wrestler and physical culturalist.{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65053995|title=03 Dec 1923 – A PHYSICAL GIANT. Clarence Weber, Wrestler. How ...|website=Trove.nla.gov.au|date=3 December 1923 |access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article53923832|title=21 Nov 1930 – DEATH OF CLARENCE WEBER Physical Culture Expert,...|website=Trove.nla.gov.au|date=21 November 1930 |access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45132067|title=15 May 1911 – WRESTLING AND BOXING. CLARENCE WEBER v. JACK JOH...|website=Trove.nla.gov.au|date=15 May 1911 |access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://trove.stevecassidy.net/name/d74701eddf0e86af07a27bd9860fe8d3|title=Matches for name|website=Trove.stevecassidy.net|access-date=2015-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208173113/http://trove.stevecassidy.net/name/d74701eddf0e86af07a27bd9860fe8d3|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01644b.htm|title=Wrestling – Entry – eMelbourne – The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online|website=Emelbourne.net.au|access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=https://prezi.com/rh0mfol7ecxq/clarence-weber-photograph/|title=Clarence weber photograph|website=Prezi.com|access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.coreedaoz.com/main/page_kushti_australia.html|title=Kushti Australia|website=Coreedaoz.com|access-date=2015-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127153206/http://www.coreedaoz.com/main/page_kushti_australia.html|archive-date=27 November 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxGe_Fx2bbgC&q=clarence+weber+wrestler%7Ctitle%3DShooters%7Cpublisher%3D&pg=PT55|title=Shooters|isbn=9781770902213|access-date=2015-12-03|last1=Snowden|first1=Jonathan|date=9 August 2012|publisher=ECW Press }}{{cite web|url=http://billiongraves.com/pages/record/Clarence-Weber/1923321#given_names=Clarence&family_names=Weber|title=Clarence Weber|website=BillionGraves.com|access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=19180&bild=1&details=7&kampfland=8&jahr=1926|website=Wrestlingdata.com |title=The World's Largest Wrestling Database|author=Axel Saalbach|access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS19041114.2.15|title=Papers Past – Auckland Star – 14 November 1904 – BRUTAL WRESTLING.|website=Paperspast.natlib.govt.nz|access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.prowrestlinghistoricalsociety.com/au-vic-1920-1929.html|title=1920–1929 Victoria Results|work=The Home of Historical Wrestling}}{{cite web|url=http://www.mediaman.com.au/articles/australian_professional.html|title=Australian Professional Wrestling: A Short History |website=Mediaman.com.au|access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.abebooks.co.uk/Championship-WRESTLING-SOUVENIR-wrestlers-who-will/1003844098/bd|title=Championship WRESTLING SOUVENIR of wrestlers who will wrestle for the World's Light Heavy Weight Championship at the Stadium: Season 1927|website=Abebooks.co.uk|access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4r24/robin-ihakara-te-tuku|title=Robin, Ihakara Te Tuku – Biography – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand|website=Teara.govt.nz|access-date=2015-12-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nzwrestling.com/clipping/250/A+Visit+with+the+Russian+Lion.htm|title=A Visit with the Russian Lion – NZ Wrestling|website=Nzwrestling.com|access-date=2015-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208154748/http://www.nzwrestling.com/clipping/250/A+Visit+with+the+Russian+Lion.htm|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/personalities/hackenschmidt/hackbio7.html|title=The Way to Live – The Story of My Life – Georg Hackenschmidt – Part 7|website=Wrestling-Titles.com|year=1908 }}{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33390278|title=02 May 1911 – ALL-IN CONTESTS. CLARENCE WEBER'S CLAIM. HIS CHA...|website=Trove.nla.gov.au|date=2 May 1911 }}{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5259518|title=24 Mar 1911 – WRESTLER AND BOXER. WHO IS THE BETTER MAN? WEBER...|website=Trove.nla.gov.au|date=24 March 1911 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TbWx-ljKLBUC&q=clarence+weber+boxer&pg=RA4-PA54|title=Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War|isbn=9780191609381|access-date=2015-12-03|last1=Carden-Coyne|first1=Ana|date=20 August 2009|publisher=Oxford University Press }}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSEhAQAAIAAJ&q=clarence+weber+boxer&pg=PA354|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. 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Career
Weber opened a health and strength college in Flinders Street, Melbourne with partner John Rice.
He took up wrestling in 1904, defeating Buttan Singh for the Australian Heavyweight Championship in November 1906. He won the Australian title again in September 1911, and retired in 1913. His return to wrestling in 1923 was less successful. In 1925, Ike Robin defeated Clarence Weber in a Best 2 out of 3 Falls match for the NWA Australasian Heavyweight Championship in Melbourne. Upon returning to Napier, he was apparently awarded a gold medal in recognition of his victory. Robin became so popular in the country that a patented wire-strainer for fencing, the "Ike Grip", was named after him.{{cite book |first=Matthew |last=Bennett |title=Ihakara Te Tuku Robin (1886–1968) |url=http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=4R24 |publisher=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |date=27 June 2007 |isbn=978-0-478-18451-8 }}{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article203136581|title=WRESTLING|date=1925-08-24|work=Evening News (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1924 - 1941)|access-date=2019-07-12|pages=8}}
Weber's final bout took place in 1926.{{Citation|last=Mandle|first=W. F.|title=Weber, Clarence Alfred (1882–1930)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/weber-clarence-alfred-9028|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-07-12}}
Personal life
Weber was the seventh surviving child of Robert Gustaf Frederick Weber and Eliza nee Head.
Weber married Louisa Peck in 1906, and had four daughters and three sons. Louisa died on 19 May 1918.{{Citation|last=Mandle|first=W. F.|title=Weber, Clarence Alfred (1882–1930)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/weber-clarence-alfred-9028|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-07-12}}
Weber then married fellow physical culturist Ivy Mitchell (nee Filshie), on 7 March 1919. Ivy had been widowed during World War I and had one son. Together, Clarence and Ivy had one son and two daughters.{{Citation|last=Mandle|first=W. F.|title=Weber, Clarence Alfred (1882–1930)|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/weber-clarence-alfred-9028|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=2019-07-12}}
Death
Weber collapsed and died on 20 November 1930 while washing his hands before dinner in Victoria Crescent, Mont Albert at the age of 48,{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4226023|title=MR. CLARENCE WEBER'S DEATH.|date=1930-11-22|work=Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)|access-date=2019-07-12|pages=20}} the cause of death was a coronary occlusion. His second wife, Ivy, became the second woman to be elected to the Victorian parliament and the first at a general election.
Championships and accomplishments
- Professional boxing
- Australian Heavyweight Championship
- Professional wrestling
- Australian Heavyweight Championship (1 time){{cite web|url=http://www.wrestling-titles.com/australia/aus-h.html|title=Australian Heavyweight Title|website=Wrestling-Titles.com}}
- Australasian Heavyweight Championship (1 time){{cite web | url=https://www.wrestling-titles.com/oceania/anz-h.html | title=Australasian Heavyweight Title }}
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Category:Sportspeople from Melbourne
Category:Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
Category:Australian male professional wrestlers
Category:Australian male boxers
Category:Boxers from Melbourne