At the age of 12, Winstone joined the famous Repton Amateur Boxing Club and, over the next 10 years, won 80 out of 88 bouts.

) Amateur linguists note here that Pursewarden, in Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, stammered when he spoke of his wife, which is hardly surprising in view of their disastrous relationship.

Amateur astronomers often like to keep records of their observations, which usually takes the form of an observing log.

* Chalmersspexet – Amateur theater group which has produced new plays since 1948

Due to the efforts of Merrill Swan, W6AEE, of the " The RTTY Society of Southern California " publisher of RTTY and Wayne Green, W2NSD, of CQ Magazine, Amateur Radio operators successfully petitioned the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to amend Part 12 of the Regulations, which was effective on February 20, 1953.

The Gretzkys had to legally challenge the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association to win Wayne the right to play elsewhere, which was disallowed at the time.

Amateur astronomers can do useful scientific study of variable stars by visually comparing the star with other stars within the same telescopic field of view of which the magnitudes are known and constant.

* Ted Mack's The Original Amateur Hour, which began on radio in the 1930s under original host Edward Bowes

* Amateur rocketry, a hobby in which participants experiment with fuels or custom rocket motors

In 1973, struggles in the FIBA led to a dissident organisation, the Federacion Mundial de Beisbol Amateur ( FEMBA ), which organised its own World Championships.

Its revival was pioneered by the Swedish Amateur Boxing Association, which sanctioned events for women in 1988.

The club plays in Amateur Football Combination, which is purported to be the biggest league in the world comprising 103 clubs and some 355 teams.

The headquarters of the national governing body, the Amateur Rowing Association, is also on Lower Mall, in a building, The Priory, which used to be occupied by rowing clubs.

* British Amateur Press Association ( comics fandom ), an amateur press association which first published under the name PAPA

Downpatrick's most prominent team is Downpatrick F. C., which competes in the Northern Amateur Football League.

The DRS is a conference member of the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Association which is divided into three classes ( A, B, and C ).

He was also known for his sponsorship of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which resulted in the establishment of the United States Olympic Committee.

He is best known for his films Trust, Amateur and Henry Fool, which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue.

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.

Els won the South African Amateur Championship a few months after his 17th birthday, becoming the youngest-ever winner of that event, breaking the record which had been held by Gary Player.

From 1919 to 1928, the Memorial Cup Final was a two-game total goals affair between a champion from Eastern Canada and a champion from Western Canada, both of which were determined through a series of playdowns under the auspices of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.

At 15, Nicklaus shot a 66 at Scioto Country Club, which was the amateur course record, and qualified for his first U. S. Amateur.

The Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission which owns the National Sports Center was not comfortable with the idea so the Thunder decided to look elsewhere.

Winchell went back to reading magazines, gathering jokes from them and putting together a comedy routine, which he then took to the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, winning first prize.

The International Fellowship of Rotarian Amateur Astronomers ( IFRAA ) is a fellowship group of amateur astronomers which spans the continents.

Amateur competition in England began towards the end of the 18th century.

Amateur Radio operators also had to identify their station callsign at the beginning and the end of each transmission and at ten minute intervals using International Morse Code.

The requirement for Amateur Radio operators in the United States to identify their station callsign at the beginning and the end of each digital transmission and at ten minute intervals using International Morse Code was finally lifted by the FCC on June 15, 1983.

* Amateur radio requires the callsign to be stated at the end of a communication and every ten minutes during ( some hams use countdown clocks to remind them to identify ); modes such as packet radio and fast-scan television often have a provision for automatic identification, either including it as part of a digital data stream or overlaying it over an analog picture.

Since all end users communicate using a radio as opposed to using a computer directly, IRLP has adopted the motto " Keeping the Radio in Amateur Radio ".

Amateur competition in England began towards the end of the eighteenth century.

The idea was presented to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ( CAHA ) and by the end of 1962, Bauer's idea was accepted.

Amateur telescope makers ( sometimes called ATMs ) build their instruments for personal enjoyment of a technical challenge, as a way to obtain an inexpensive or personally customized telescope, or as a research tool in the field of astronomy.

Barclay Kruse, the associate director of the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission described the situation as, " The best way to describe it is that we're disappointed.

The government expresses little governance of ARES ( other than the FCC regulations -- 47 CFR Part 97 -- which regulate all of Amateur Radio ) and local authorities only passively regulate ARES groups by way of formal understandings.

Apparently concerned with the ( admittedly lessened ) influence of what he calls “ Amateur Criticism ,” Wimsatt published Hateful Contraries in 1965 as a way to “ distinguish what consider an inevitable and proper literary interest in the contraries ” ( Hateful Contraries xviii ).

Amateur winemakers can choose the grape varieties, select an appellation, make production decisions along the way and participate in the final blending, bottling and even design their own labels.

The list of world kickboxing titles that Kash picked up and added to his collection over the next few years was impressive and his rise to fame gathered impetus in 1986 when he blasted his way to a gold medal at the World PKA Amateur Full Contact Championships.

In 1939, Alvino Rey, an Amateur Radio Operator W6UK, used a carbon throat microphone wired in such a way as to modulate his electric steel guitar sound.

Amateur radio operators who specialize in making two way radio contact with other amateurs in distant countries are also referred to as " DXers ".

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 boxing may be found at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games, and in many other venues sanctioned by amateur boxing associations.

Amateur radio operators may use it to call each other for voice or data communications.

Amateur radio operators may do this for cost reasons or due to a perception that commercial gear is more solidly constructed or better designed than purpose-built amateur gear.

Amateur cricketers often have to use old balls, or cheap substitutes, in which case the changes in the condition of the ball may not be experienced in the same manner as that which occurs during an innings of professional cricket.

An Amateur Radio Operator with a transceiver installed in their vehicle may provide telephone network access from dozens or hundreds of miles away, depending on the frequencies of the involved repeater / base station, the power of the transceiver, and the gain of the antennas on both ends.

Amateur players may find it difficult to concentrate on the game, since they are so far from the action.

Amateur players may find it difficult to concentrate on the game, since they are so far from the action.

Amateur radio frequencies also may have assigned functions which may allow or disallow certain traffic including voice, such as continuous wave ( see Morse code ) transmission or data-only transmission frequencies.

Note: Federal Law preempts many Local Ordinances and State Laws which may prohibit a licensed Amateur Radio Operator from possessing an amateur radio based on its factory ability to receive frequencies outside of ham bands.

Amateur stations must accept harmful interference caused by ISM users but may receive protection from unlicensed devices.

At any Clogging Champions of America affiliated event, a team qualifying as an Amateur – having never won a first place honor in a clogging competition, may compete under Amateur status now for two ( 2 ) C. C. A.