Competitors in sportsman's attire most emulating the rugged papa persona of Hemingway adopted in his later years paraded on stage at Sloppy Joe's before a judging panel of previous winners. Marshall said he shares several characteristics besides appearance with Hemingway and has both written nonfiction and short fiction. Quote like Hemingway, I have a love of the outdoors. I love fishing one heck of a lot, he said, citing his catches of walleye in northern pike and Wisconsin waters, as well as an angling for tarpon in the Florida Keys