Amateur dramatics is the performance of plays or musical theater, often to high standards, but lacking the budgets of professional West End or Broadway performances.

Amateur and professional collectors became familiar with these skinning techniques and started sending in their skins to museums, some of them from distant locations.

Amateur telescope making is the activity of building telescopes as a hobby, as opposed to being a paid professional.

Only nine months after winning the Cup, in March 1906, the Montreal Wanderers pushed through a resolution at the annual meeting of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association ( ECAHA ) that would allow professional players to play alongside amateurs.

One year later, the Montreal HC and the Montreal Victorias, the two remaining amateur teams, left the ECAHA, and the ECAHA dropped " Amateur " from their name to become a professional league.

After winning five National Amateur Championships in Puerto Rico, he debuted as a professional when he was 17.

Amateur players are seen doing this all the time, particular when playing touch football, and it can even be seen in professional contests.

* Donna Horton White, 1976 U. S. Women's Amateur champion, LPGA professional

* Amateur and professional visual and telescopic solar filters.

An article in the British journal Amateur Photographer stated " photography is an art ‒ perhaps the only one in which the amateur soon equals, and frequently excels, the professional in proficiency.

For a brief time it experimented in partnerships with other semi professional and amateur clubs before incorporating the Fitzroy Reds ( formerly University Reds ) to play in the Victorian Amateur Football Association.

Indeed, in 1906 Wreford-Brown was one of the leading figures in the movement to create the Amateur Football Alliance in London in order to keep the amateur game separate from the Football Association, an organisation that the amateur clubs found to be increasingly driven by the financial gain of the professional clubs.

In 1989 Els won the South African Amateur Stroke Play Championship and turned professional the same year.

Many professional players emerged from South Miami Amateur, including " RANDY " # 44 at World Jai-Alai, regarded as the first American pelotari, who turned pro in 1968 and enjoyed a lengthy career.

This victory was also Nicklaus ' 11th professional major, tying him with Walter Hagen, and made him the first player to win the U. S. Amateur and U. S. Open championships on the same golf course.

As an amateur, Curtis found much success, winning the Ohio Amateur in 1999 and 2000 ( joining professional golfers John Cook and Arnold Palmer as the only men to win the Ohio Amateur in consecutive years ), and also the Players Amateur in 2000.

Amateur companies that had dropped the opera restored it to their rotations after the 1970 revival, and it still receives regular productions, both professional and amateur.

* The Amateur Championship: which was one of the four major championships before the professional game became dominant and is still one of the most prestigious amateur tournaments in the world.

This tournament was introduced to provide an elite competition for golfers who never turn professional as the main Amateur Championship is dominated by future professionals in their late teens and early twenties.

* 1995 Renamed United Systems of Independent Soccer Leagues and formally established professional Pro League and amateur Amateur Premier League

The club played for two seasons in the Lancashire and Cheshire Amateur League, before turning professional and joining the Lancashire Combination becoming second division champions at the first attempt.

At 16 she was a winner on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, and embarked upon a professional career.

The early years of Mossley AFC were spent in the Ashton & District League culminating in a superb season in 1914 – 15 when Mossley won the League, Manchester Junior Cup and the Lady Aitken Cup, progressing to the South East Lancashire League in 1915, the Manchester Amateur League in 1916, the Lancashire Combination in 1918 and then were founder members of the Cheshire County League in 1919, finishing runners up in the first season in both League and League Cup and returning to win the League Cup the following season beating Sandbach Ramblers in the final.

The enactment of the Amateur Sports Act was prompted by lobbying by amateur athletes, particularly runners, who felt that the AAU imposed artificial rules preventing widespread participation in sports.

The club was also runners up in the FA Amateur Cup to Wycombe Wanderers in 1931.

In the 1973 – 74 season they reached semi-finals of the last FA Amateur Cup competition, before losing to eventual winners Bishop's Stortford, as well as being runners up for the Northern League Cup and the Northumberland Senior Cup.

In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

Amateur astronomers also use star charts that, depending on experience and intentions, may range from simple planispheres through to detailed charts of very specific areas of the night sky.

Amateur astronomers often contribute toward activities such as monitoring the changes in brightness of variable stars and supernovae, helping to track asteroids, and observing occultations to determine both the shape of asteroids and the shape of the terrain on the apparent edge of the Moon as seen from Earth.

* Special Event Amateur Ham Radio Station operated from Bangalore, INDIA

For example, in the UK the Great Britain Diving Federation was formed in 1992 with the intention of taking over the governance of Diving from the ASA ( Amateur Swimming Association ).

In 1937 Wollheim founded the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, whose first mailing ( July 1937 ) included this statement from Wollheim: " There are many fans desiring to put out a voice who dare not, for fear of being obliged to keep it up, and for the worry and time taken by subscriptions and advertising.

They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name from Fulham Excelsior to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt.

Amateur radio operators occasionally transmitted from the island, using the KH3 callsign prefix.

In 1978, the Asian Amateur Kabaddi Federation was formed at a conference of delegates from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan in the Indian town of Villai.

In April 1932, the executive council of the International Amateur Athletics Federation ( IAAF ) suspended Nurmi from international athletics events, pending an investigation into his amateur status by the Finnish Athletics Federation.

Packets radio use the AX. 25 ( Amateur X. 25 ) data link layer protocol, derived from the X. 25 protocol suite and adapted for amateur radio use.

Amateur radio operators began experimenting with packet radio in 1978, when-after obtaining authorization from the Canadian government-Robert Rouleau, VE2PY and The Western Quebec VHF / UHF Amateur Radio Club

The FCC approved the use of ASCII by Amateur Radio stations on March 17, 1980 with speeds up to 300 baud from 3. 5 to 21. 25 MHz and 1200 baud between 28 and 225 MHz.

It was initially known as the International Amateur Athletics Federation but changed later its name to reflect that the sport had moved away from amateurism towards professionalism in the late 1970s.

The Amateur Athletic Union held " all around events " from the 1880s and a decathlon first appeared on the Olympic athletics program at the 1904 Games.

Staines Swimming Club founded in the early 1900s and affiliated to the Amateur Swimming Association is based at Spelthorne Leisure Centre and provides competitive swimming from inter-club level up to national level.

While the Islanders secured veteran forward Ed Westfall from the Boston Bruins in the 1972 NHL Expansion Draft, junior league star Billy Harris in the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft, and a few other players, several other draftees jumped to the WHA.

The keystone of those teams was acquired when the Flyers took a chance on a 19-year-old diabetic from Flin Flon, Manitoba, named Bobby Clarke with their second draft pick, 17th overall, in the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft.

Amateur radio operators have achieved significantly farther distances using incoherent sources of light from high-intensity LEDs.

It was founded on 17 July 1912 at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation.

In 1931, a 440yd running track was installed for the Amateur Athletic Association Championships, held there from 1932 to 1970.

Amateur soccer teams from Heidelberg Borough were nationally competitive from the 1920s through the 1950s, bringing home the amateur national title in 1927, 1929, and 1955.