Background
Wallach was born in Scotland to Hermann Louis Waldemar Wallach, a German tinsmith, and Janet Wallach, a native Scot.
Wallach was born in Scotland to Hermann Louis Waldemar Wallach, a German tinsmith, and Janet Wallach, a native Scot.
He competed in the 10,000 m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the final. In 1905 he moved to Lewes and in 1906 to Lancashire to work for the Manchester Evening News.