Ironically, it soon became apparent that it had been Lascoe, an old pro ... who had made her feel like an amateur.

The modern Olympic movement revived interest in amateur sports, and amateur boxing became an Olympic sport in 1908.

This became a major problem as bidding wars between the ballclubs to land the best amateur players escalated signing bonuses.

In addition, Tony England became the second amateur radio operator to transmit from space during the mission.

* Radio Amateur News — July 1919 to July 1920 — dropped the word " amateur " and became just Radio News

While imprisoned, he became actively involved, as an actor, writer, producer, and set-designer, in the amateur theatrical productions which took place in the camp, finding them " a source of great pleasure and amusement ".

It successfully toured the United States with much of the same cast, as was done in those days, until 1911, and then became available for amateur use.

In the late 1800s, amateur microscopy became a popular hobby in the United States and Europe.

This question of the professionalism of ancient Olympic athletes is a subject of debate amongst scholars, with Young and others arguing that the athletes were professional throughout the history of the ancient Games, while other scholars led by Pleket argue that the earliest Olympic athletes were in fact amateur, and that the Games only became professionalised after about 480 BCE.

With a 12 – 5 vote, with many not voting, Nurmi's suspension from international amateur athletics became definite.

Since the technology became widespread in the 1970s, SLRs have become the main photographic instrument used by dedicated amateur photographers and professionals.

60 speed became the de facto standard for amateur radio RTTY operation because of the widespread availability of equipment at that speed and the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) restrictions to only 60 speed from 1953 to 1972.

In the 1980s, packet radio became the most common form of digital communications used in amateur radio.

Natural history became increasingly an " amateur " activity.

Largely due to the ubiquity of 2G ALE, it became the primary method for providing interoperation on HF between governmental and non-governmental disaster relief and emergency communications entities, and amateur radio volunteers.

An amateur radio operator, Grote Reber, was one of the pioneers of what became known as radio astronomy when he built the first parabolic " dish " radio telescope ( in diameter ) in his back yard in Illinois in 1937.

From amateur beginnings it quickly became a massive commercial circus catering for cars, motorcycles and trucks, and spawned other similar events.

17. 5 mm film, created by splitting 35 mm film, was one early amateur format, but 9. 5 mm film, introduced in Europe in 1922, and 16 mm film, introduced in the US in 1923, soon became the standards for " home movies " in their respective hemispheres.

Under the new proposal, the Stanley Cup Final series alternated between the East and the West each year, with alternating games played according to NHA and PCHA rules .< ref name =" DiamondPrize-20 ">< nowiki > Diamond, Zweig, and Duplacey </ nowiki >, p. 20 </ ref > The Cup trustees agreed to this new arrangement, because after the Allan Cup became the highest prize for amateur hockey teams in Canada, the trustees had become dependent on the top two professional leagues to bolster the prominence of the trophy.

John Stainer's The Crucifixion ( 1887 ) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies.

She studied sociology at Miranda House, Delhi University, where she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company.

Oberth became a member of the Verein für Raumschiffahrt ( VfR )-the " Spaceflight Society " – an amateur rocketry group that had taken great inspiration from his book, and Oberth acted as something of a mentor to the enthusiasts who joined the Society.

Three years later, after a 73-6-8 amateur record, he became a professional.

After a successful undefeated amateur career that included a national title, Vélez became the first Puerto Rican to win a women's world boxing championship on January 19, 2001, when she defeated Kathy Williams on a unanimous decision over 10 rounds to win the IBA bantamweight title.

Akira, who at this point planned to become a painter, moved in with him, and the two brothers became inseparable.

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

While it is assumed that the younger Cuyp did work with his father initially to develop rudimentary talents, Aelbert became more focused on landscape paintings while Jacob was a portrait painter by profession.

John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.

Berthe Morisot ( January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895 ) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

Originally hired as an easel painter, in 1935 Alston became the first African American supervisor to work for the WPA's Federal Art Project in New York, which would also serve as his first mural work.

Camille's granddaughter ( Lucien Pissarro's daughter ) Orovida Pissarro became a painter.

After the proclamation of the Empire in 1804, David became the official court painter of the regime.

Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, he has been called " the Netherlands ' greatest and only rock ' n ' roll star ," later in life he became a well-known painter.

In the 1940s Lawrence was given his first major solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and became the most celebrated African American painter in the country.

The painter Ustad Mansur became one of the best artists to document the animals and plants which Jahangir either encountered on his military exhibitions or received as donations from emissaries of other countries.

There he became court painter to Ferdinand VI of Spain and director of the Royal Academy of Saint Fernando.

John W. became a naturalist, writer and painter in his own right.

Generally, it is agreed that while he was still a child, he became a pupil of the painter Toriyama Sekien.

His sons, Andreas Feininger and T. Lux Feininger, both became noted artists, the former as a photographer and the latter as a photographer and painter.

A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.

Before leaving school, towards the end of 1855, he became assistant to the painter and professor Louis ( Lodewijk ) Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history and historical costume he had greatly enjoyed at the Academy.

Although de Taeye was not an outstanding painter, Alma-Tadema respected him and became his studio assistant, working with him for three years.

Anna became a painter and Laurence became a novelist.

The Butler Yeats family were highly artistic ; his brother Jack became an esteemed painter, while his sisters Elizabeth and Susan Mary — known to family and friends as Lollie and Lily — became involved in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

His brother also became a painter.

On his return from studying in Italy in 1731, he was admitted to the Académie de peinture et de sculpture as a historical painter, and became a faculty member in 1734.

Marquise de Pompadour ( mistress of King Louis XV ), whose name became synonymous with Rococo art, was a great fan of Boucher's, and had the painter under her protection: it is particularly in his portraits of her that this style is clearly exemplified.