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THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN
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IN BASEBALL
Catholic Profiles
BY RONDEL
Cincinnati's ‘61 National league champs have been unable to
get untracked so far this season and the main reason is Frank
Robinson.
The old saying, “as Robinson goes, so go the Reds/’ is cer
tainly proving to be true. Thus far, the Rhinelanders slugging
flyhawk is off to the slowest start of his career.
A notorious slow starter, Robbie came on strong last season
and almost won the batting title. He swatted .342, smashed
34 homers and a career and team high of 51 doubles.
By no standards is that a meager effort, yet Robbie has done
better. In his rookie year Frank connected for 38 round trippers
to tie a long standing NL mark
held by Wally Berger.
In view of all his accomplishments
and successes Frank Robinson might
be pictured as a contented, happy
ballplayer. But he is not. He even
threatened to retire, following the
*62 season.
Why? Few people realize the ex
treme pressure that the ballplayer
is under, especially a star like Rob-
inSon. He is expected to carry the Reds. When he slumps, so does
the club.
He is under pressure to produce every time he comes to the
plate with runners on base. Crosley field fans recognize big
#42 as their bread and butter man. They pay to see him play
and they pay to see him produce.
In 1961 Frank produced and produced big. So big that he led
the Reds to the National League pennant and into the World
Series. That the Reds bowed to the Yankees in the fall classic is
of small consequence. That they even got into the series was
astonishing. That season Frank averaged .323 while participat
ing in all but one game for the Reds. He also chipped in with 37
circuit clouts and 32 twobaggers.
A graduate of McClymonds high school in Oakland, as is his
teammate and closest friend, Vada Pinson, Robinson is enter
ing his seventh year of major league play.
A versatile player, Frank can play first base, the outfield
or thirdbase with a great amount of skill and consistency.
He'd rather play in the outfield but says, “I'll, play whereever
I can help theclub most,"
He stands 6'1 and weighs a proportionate 186, not except
ionally big measurements, but he possesses enough power to hit
the ball out of any park in the majors.
Already, he is well on his way to becoming the greatest home-
run hitter in Redleg history. So far he has rocketed 236 balls
out of sight and has knocked in over 700 rbi’s.
He is no stranger to AL twirlers either. He hits them with
equal authority and even less compassion. In the ‘59 all-star
came he collected three hits off some of the best chuckers in
the AL.
Frank is a quiet, retiring fellow. The type who'd rather play
with an injury, than create a big fuss about it. He makes his home
in Cincinnatti both during the season and afterwards.
Never an instigator, but slow to retreat from danger, Robin
son has been in his share of beefs during his career. Undoubtedly
the most memorable one occured in *61 with Milwaukee third-
baseman Eddie Mathews. Robbie slid hard into third and was
the recipient of an unusually hard tag by Mathews. Words were
exchanged between the two players and before anyone knew it
fists were flying. Robbie decked Mathews with a wild haymaker
and the Brave blaster wound up nursing a busted jaw in the hos
pital. Robbie returned to play in the second game, but visited
Mathews immediately after the game.
Robinson’s stance at the plate is a very unusual one. He crouches
over the plate and dips his big (36 oz.) bat over his right shoul
der. His head and shoulder are practically directly over the plate
and as a result he is hit quite often with errant pitches. In fact,
he hasled the NL in being his three of the last five years.
Not quite yet 28 years old, the Rhileander rightfielder has a
lot of good years ahead of him. His biggest problem may have
already been solved. He has resigned himself to the fact that he
must accept the pressure that Is placed on him. Being able to stand
up straight under it is a mark of greatness.
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Church’s Role In Unity
Praised At Conference
Idamae McDonald of Denver, Colo., has been selected as the Outstanding Junior Catholic
Daughter of America of 1963. She is a member of Court St. Rita and is a Junior in the
Cathedral High School in Denver. She was chosen among 20,000 Junior Catholic Daugh
ters for her leadership qualities, scholastic rating and community service. The special
gold Sunburst medal of the Sacred Heart designed for the Outstanding Junior Catholic
Daughter was presented to her by Bishop Connare at the 60th Anniversary Banquet of
the Catholic Daughters of America, held in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Left to right:
Bishop William G. Connare of Greensburg, Pa., Episcopal Moderator of the Juniors; Ida
mae McDonald; Msgr. Fredrick J. Stevenson, of Washington, director of the Junior Cath
olic Daughters, and Anne Dillingham, executive secretary of the Juniors.
‘A GREAT HOPE’
Unity Cause Will Go On
In Reign Of Pope Paul
VATICAN cm; (NC)—World
hopes for Christian unity,
sparked by the charity and cou
rage of Pope John XXIII, will
find no cause to falter in the
reign of His Holiness Pope Paul
VL
The record proves that Gio
vanni Cardinal Montini, as
Archbishop of Milan, now Pope
Paul VI, was the first to ap
plaud Pope John's announced In
tention to make the promotion
of Christian unity one of the
goals of the Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council.
THE numerous public pro
nouncements made subsequent
ly by the then Cardinal Monti
ni further demonstrate an open,
charitable, yet realistic ap
proach to what he called “the
very difficult and complex ques
tion.’’
Shortly after Pope John an
nounced his intention of con
voking the council, including
among its purposes a “loving in
vitation to unity with the
Church," Cardinal Montini
said:
“A great hope is ignited in
the Church. Bless him who has
given us this joyous light!”
Immediately after his elec
tion as the successor of Pope
John, Pope Paul announced to
the world that the late Pope’s
dying wish would be the program
of his pontificate. On the day af
ter his election, Pope Paul re
ceived the third ceremonial ob
eisance of the cardinals who
elected him. Then, from the
Sistine chapel, he broadcast
his first radio message to the
world, saying:
"OUR pontifical service will
be dedicated to continuing with
every effort the great work be
gun with so much hope and hap
py promise by Our predeces
sor, John XXIII: the fulfillment
of that 'Ut unum slnt'—that they
may be one—awaited so by all,
and for which he offered his
life.
“The common aspiration oi
reestablishing unity, so pain
fully broken in the past, will
find in Us the echo of a fervent
will and of sincere prayers, in
the consciousness of the of
fice committed to Us by Jesus...
“We open Our arms to all
those who glory in the name of
Christ. We call them by the
sweet name of brother. Andmay
they know that they will find in
us constant understanding and
good will, that they will find in
Rome their paternal home which
exalts and values with new
splendor the treasures of their
history, their cultural patri
mony and their spiritual herit
age."
THIS could have been Pope
John himself speaking, and it
should have been encouraging to
anyone who suffered a moment's
doubt as to what would be the
mind of Pope John's successor.
But long before this, as Cardi
nal Montini, Pope Paul spoke
in detail on the prospects of
Christian unity.
Speaking at Mendola Pass,
Italy, to a group of Italian in
tellectuals on August 16, 1960,
Cardinal Montini was long in
hopes but short in optimism.
After indicating the problem of
“the recomposition in the unity
of the Church of the dissident
brothers," he said:
In that discourse he gave full
endorsement to the invitation
uttered by Pope John in his first
encyclical, Ad Petri Cathe-
dram:
MONTREAL, Que. (RNS) —
The growing participation of
Roman Catholic Church leaders
in the Christian unity move
ment was lauded by an Angli
can bishop at the World Con
ference on Faith and Order
here as the “greatest deve
lopment in recent years" in the
religious world.
Addressing the World Council
of Churches" theological study
meeting, Bishop Oliver Tom
kins of Bristol, England, cited
also the unity efforts of the late
Pope John XXIIL
“IN the voice of Pope John
we heard the voice of the Roman
Catholic Church speaking with
a new accent," he told some 500
churchmen and theologians
from Anglican, Protestant and
Orthedbx bodies around the
world.
Noting that five Catholic ob
servers and 15 guests were pre
sent at the meeting, Bishop
Tomkins said:
“Just as we rejoiced at the
courtesy which was extended to
the non-Catholic observers at
the Second Vatican Council, so
we rejoice now that we have the
opportunity in some small way
also to extend our courtesies to
the Roman Catholic observers
who are among us."
The bishop declared that al
though in the Catholic Church
there are “certain dogmatic af
firmations" on which there can
be no compromise, “it is now
true that the Catholic Church
engages in a living dialogue
with the rest of us in a way
that is quite unprecedented."
“THERE was always a cer
tain unreality in the discussion
of Christian unity," he contin
ued, “when the largest single
communion in Christendom was'
not effectively a partner to the
discussion.
“The world itself has to face
some difficulty about what is to
be its relationship to a body of
Christians, however large, who
are not members of the fellow
ship in the same sense as are
the member Churches (of the
WCC)."
Bishop Tomkins suggested
that new ways be found "in tht
context of our membership in
the World Council” for coope
ration with Catholic theologians
“in the specific Faith and Or
der activities.*'
The WCC includes 201 Pro
testant, Anglican, Orthodox and
Old Catholic bodies. Present at
Its 1961 Assembly in New Del
hi, India, were five official ob
servers from the Catholic
Church. The presence of the
Catholic observers at the con
ference here, however, marked
the first time that such repre-
aenatives have attended a
world-wide Faith and Order
meeting.
Bishop Tomkins observed
that Faith and Order should
take a “much more responsible
interest in the many move
ments towards actual organic
union which are developing in
various parts of Christendom."
BUT he warned that it would
be “calamitous if it were sup
posed that Faith and Order were
some kind of supra-church tri
bunal before which unity sche
mes were put on trial."
“The negotiations of local
unity," he continued, “are es
sentially a matter for which the
Churches concerned must ac
cept full responsibility them
selves.
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