Word: championships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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. Marlene-onetime British amateur women's champion (1953), four-time winner of the Canadian open (1951, '54, '55, '56) and current U.S. intercollegiate titleholder-passed her strawberry-blonde competitor on the 35th hole, won 2 and 1, became the first Canadian...
...Take it easy on an old man, Harvie," pleaded the challenger with a tired smile. Charles Kocsis, 43, Detroit tool distributor, had all but five holes of the final round of the U.S. Amateur golf championship behind him, but he had a slew of other amateur scrambles dating back to 1930 behind him too, and he was bushed. He got no more sympathy than he expected from Defending Champion Harvie Ward Jr., 30. "I can see your lips moving," said Ward, "but I've turned off my hearing...
...front by then, just as he figured to be, handsome Harvie Ward well knew that any round of any amateur championship took all the concentration he could master. Day after day of match play always turns a tournament into a mess of upsets. At Lake Forest's Knollwood Country Club last week, even the weather pitched in to ruffle the field. Scores soared on damp, blustery winds. Co-Favorite Ken Venturi, Ward's San Francisco running mate, the man who almost won the Masters, disappeared in the third round. Californian Bob Roos, the ungainly golfer who beat Venturi...
...After too many years of timid boxing and tainted decisions that gave him the world's welterweight championship. Johnny Saxton tried his hand at honest fistfighting. For a few rounds at the Syracuse War Memorial Auditorium, he moved in and traded punches with Challenger Carmen Basilio. By the time he backed off and tried to defend himself, he was so beaten up he had nothing left. In the ninth round Basilio pounded him senseless. While Saxton was being lugged to his corner, the onetime Canastota (N.Y.) onion farmer knelt in mid-ring to give a prayer of thanks...
...Champ. In Cucamonga, Calif., after neighbors complained that the peace was being disturbed, a constable found 77-year-old Mrs. Sarah E. Shaffstall practicing to defend her Los Angeles County Fair hog-calling championship...