Amateur boxing is an Olympic and Commonwealth sport and is a common fixture in most of the major international games-it also has its own World Championships.

Amateur boxing has a point scoring system that measures the number of clean blows landed rather than physical damage.

The British Amateur Boxing Association sanctioned its first boxing competition for women in 1997.

While awaiting discharge, Marciano, representing the army, won the 1946 Amateur Armed Forces boxing tournament.

McGuigan started his juvenile boxing career at the Wattlebridge Amateur Boxing Club, County Fermanagh and later moved to the Smithborough Amateur Boxing Club, County Monaghan.

* Amateur boxing: unknown

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* Amateur boxing: 41 wins 1 loss

He started his boxing career in 1949 as an amateur with the Eltham Amateur Boxing Club, and won seventy-three of eighty-four contests.

Esker Amateur Boxing Club are an amateur boxing club located in the Lucan area.

* Robert Carroll ( boxer ), amateur boxing flyweight champion in 1938, see National Amateur Flyweight Champions

* Amateur boxing

Apart from the football field and the indoor hall, the stadium includes a number of other facilities under its stands. These include the main shop of Panathinaikos football team, a cafe, a Pressroom and rooms for the training of other Amateur departments such as boxing, weightlifting, table-tennis etc., including a pool for the swimming department.

He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a Blue in boxing, this in turn led to his winning of the Scottish Amateur Middleweight title.

The Amateur Boxing Association of England is the governing body of amateur boxing clubs in England.

Category: Amateur boxing

On his return he won the heavyweight class of the All Japan Amateur shoot boxing Championship.

*** All Japan Amateur Shoot boxing Championship Heavyweight Winner

Amateur boxing was part of the modern Olympic Games since their introduction in 1904.

In 1934, club member Fred Apostoli won the National Amateur Middleweight boxing title.

The Spanish Golden Gloves was a boxing tournament sponsored by El Diario La Prensa in the New York Metropolitan Area and sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ).

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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 bouts which end this way may be noted as " RSC " ( referee stopped contest ) with notations for an outclassed opponent ( RSCO ), outscored opponent ( RSCOS ), injury ( RSCI ) or head injury ( RSCH ).

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.

Use of this wide shift proved to be a problem for Amateur Radio operations.

In a speech to the Hawarden Amateur Horticultural Society on 17 August 1876, Gladstone said that " I am delighted to see how many young boys and girls have come forward to obtain honourable marks of recognition on this occasion ,— if any effectual good is to be done to them, it must be done by teaching and encouraging them and helping them to help themselves.

Transmitters must be licensed by governments, under a variety of license classes depending on use: ( broadcast, marine radio, Airband, Amateur etc.

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.

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

The International Boxing Association prohibits the wearing of beards by amateur boxers, although the Amateur Boxing Association of England allows exceptions for Sikh men, on condition that the beard be covered with a fine net.

Amateur musical ensembles of this era can be seen as the birth of American popular music.

Following the establishment of general sports governing bodies for the United States ( the Amateur Athletic Union in 1888 ) and France ( the Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques in 1889 ), track and field events began to be promoted and codified.

The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association ( CAHA ) informed the Oil Kings that they were required to play in a junior hockey league for the 1966 – 67 season or would be held ineligible to compete for the Memorial Cup.

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.

When he retired he coached hockey for the Vancouver Island Amateur League and was posthumously selected to be inducted into the Nanaimo Sports Hall of Fame in 2010

The Allan Cup was donated in early 1909 by Montreal businessman and Montreal Amateur Athletic Association president Sir H. Montagu Allan to be presented to the amateur champions of Canada.

The Elser-Mathes Cup was created in 1928 by U. S. Amateurs Fred Johnson Elser ( W6FB / W7OX ) and Stanley M. Mathes ( 7OE / K1CY ) to be awarded for the “ First Amateur Two-Way Communication Earth & Mars ”.

During World War II, the Amateur Radio Service had been silenced and a new War Emergency Radio Service ( WERS ) had to be created from scratch in a process that took six months.

That achievement was eclipsed the following season when, in front of a 71, 000 crowd, the Cards beat Ilford 3 – 0 in the last FA Amateur Cup Final to be televised live.

After all ten rounds, the photographer with the highest score in the league table is crowned the Amateur Photographer Of the Year and wins £ 5, 000 worth of Canon vouchers to be remdeamed against the purchase of personal photographic goods ( defined as Canon Consumer Imaging Products ).

On March 29, 2012, the ECHL announced that ownership of the Nailers would be transferred from the Brooks-owned Nailers Hockey LLC to the Hockey Club of the Ohio Valley, a joint venture of the Ohio Valley Industrial & Business Development Corporation, and the Wheeling Amateur Hockey Association, to take effect at the conclusion of the 2011-2012 season.

The 2009 WDC Amateur League Open Amateur World Championships scheduled to be held at Disneyland Paris, France on December 4 – 6, 2009, is not granted by WDSF and is not registered by the WDSF Member for France, Comite National de Danse Sportive ( CNDS ).

Lupin shares distinct similarities with E. W. Hornung's archetypal gentleman thief A. J. Raffles who first appeared in The Amateur Cracksman in 1899, but both creations can be said to anticipate and have inspired later characters such as Louis Joseph Vance's The Lone Wolf and Leslie Charteris's The Saint.