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An avid sportsman, Shields never lost his love of rowing and founded the Power Ten New York, an organization dedicated to the sport, in 1980.
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He was an avid sportsman who purchased one of the early town sites and built Hotel Hallock, a place for travelers and sportsmen.
) An avid hunter and sportsman, he presided over the 1912 Olympic Games and chaired the Swedish Association of Sports in 1897-1907.
In addition to flying, Perdue is also an avid sportsman.
An avid sportsman and hunter, he strongly opposes gun control, and is a former board member of the National Rifle Association.
He continues to be an avid sportsman: member of various hunting clubs and the Jamaica Skeet Club.
Characterized by one literary critic as an " anti-Stalinist dialectician ", James was known for his autodidactism, for his occasional playwriting and fiction, and as an avid sportsman.
Edge was an avid sportsman who enjoyed fishing and hunting, especially hunting quail.
Rep. Gulley is an avid sportsman, enjoying hunting and fishing in his spare time.
Jerome was an avid sportsman.
In his younger days he was an avid sportsman, both track and field and also a volleyball player.
The title character, a little fellow ( although he would shrink in stature even more after the first year ) with big " banjo " eyes, was an avid sportsman and ne ' er-do-well involved in poker, horse racing and prize fights.
Lord Lonsdale was an avid sportsman and bon vivant and was known by some as " England's greatest sporting gentleman ".
Ernest was also an avid hunter and sportsman ; one contemporary remarked that he was " one of the foremost and keenest sportsman produced by the present century ".
Washkansky was an avid sportsman.
He also bred bulldogs, was an avid sportsman and lived richly among a large circle of literary and artistic friends.
An avid sportsman, he was instrumental in the successful third attempt to bring the 2018 Winter Olympics to Pyeongchang.
As a sports doctor and an avid sportsman he was a founding member in 1989 and since 2008, the Vice President of the Estonian Olympic Committee.
Allan was an avid sportsman and outdoor enthusiast, and a member of a number of sporting clubs.
He is also a fitness coach and an avid sportsman.
He was an avid sportsman and hunter.
Aqa Ali Shah was not only a skilful rider, but also an avid sportsman and hunter, and was particularly famous for his hunting of tigers in India.
Conan Doyle, an avid sportsman, was wintering in Davos.
Pope John Paul II entered the papacy as an avid sportsman, enjoying hiking and swimming.
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An avid hunter and fisherman, the 6-foot-5 inch Shields spent much of his free time at the camp he owned in rural west Florida, Canoe Creek.
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Although it never sold in the numbers Fuhrmann envisioned, the 928 developed an avid fan following and enjoyed an eighteen year production run.
" Anderson himself is an avid fan of The Simpsons, and even provided his voice for an episode of the show titled " Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore ", which first aired April 6, 2006, where Patty and Selma kidnap Richard Dean Anderson after he admits that he never liked doing MacGyver and only did the show for the money.
He was an avid baseball fan from an early age ; he became visiting batboy for the Atlanta Crackers of the Southern Association at the age of five, and never had to buy a ticket to get into a baseball game again.
Richard Krejcir an avid researcher and youth pastor states, “ After a student leaves the safe and fun youth culture of a caring church, even a great one, there is a 70 %+ chance they will never come back to any church?
After this, the group went their separate ways when most of them graduated in May, some never gambling again, but two members, J. P. Massar and Jonathan, maintained an avid interest in card counting and remained in Cambridge, MA, home to MIT.
Although Rueter never attended the University of North Carolina, he is an avid fan of the Tar Heels basketball.
In France, he learned to shoot, becoming an avid gunman, although he never used this ability other than for warfare.
As an avid reader of the history of Kalinga, Biju knew how Kalinga and Indonesia had a long-standing cultural link in the past and the opportunity now at hand to render some service to the people of Indonesia at their crucial hour of need should never be lost sight of.
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An avid reader as a boy, Harte published his first work at age 11, a satirical poem titled " Autumn Musings ," now lost.
In September he arrived in Vienna and demonstrated the arca musurgica to the Emperor, an avid amateur musician ; he also presented him with Libro Secondo, a collection of his own compositions ( the Libro Primo is now lost ).
Max is an avid scholar into the powers of Chaos, having lost his family to beastmen as a child, and has made it his mission in life to destroy Chaos wherever he found it: however, he was expelled from the Imperial College of Magic for displaying too great an interest in the subject.
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She met, fell in love with and married Knut Kvikne who was an avid mountain man.
" Barbara was well-educated, adept at languages, an avid reader of many differing subjects, and had a love of music.
His love of the outdoors led to his becoming an avid mountaineer and dedicated conservationist.
Dimitriades, an avid collector of vinyl records, has stated that his love of music started in childhood.
In addition to his love of film, Tucker had an avid interest in all things mechanical.
A loveable Cockney ragamuffin, Jim is an avid theatregoer who loves stories and regularly falls in love.
Carl Lowrance, an avid fisherman with an inquisitive nature, shared his love of the sport with his two sons, Darrell and Arlen.
McGlynn cites her love of 1980s pop band The Smiths, who she became an avid fan of when she was eight years old, as the reason behind her passion for music.
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