¶ Unruffled despite being four down in he final round of the U.S. women's amateur golf championship at Indianapolis, Canada's tiny (5 ft. 1 in., 115 lbs.) Marene Stewart, 22, plugged away at her steady, par-nudging game. Ahead, husky JoAnne Gunderson, 17, national junior champion, came all unstrung with tournament jitters. Marleneonetime British amateur women's champion (1953), four-time winner of the Canadian open (1951, '54, '55, '56) and current U.S. intercollegiate titleholderpassed her strawberry-blonde competitor on the 35th hole, won 2 and 1, became the first Canadian woman to take home the U.S....
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