Vital WEST, Fla. (AP) — Some arrived in wool fisherman’s sweaters, and other contestants had sportsmen’s attire. But it was the cream-coloured sweater of attorney Jon Auvil that caught the eye of judges who awarded him the title for most resembling author and previous Essential West resident Ernest Hemingway.

Auvil triumphed Saturday night in excess of 124 other contestants for the title in the annual Hemingway Search-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, the Essential West institution wherever the writer was a regular patron in the course of his ten years-extensive residence on the island in the 1930s.