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Princeton's defense was almost as much help to McCandlish as Harvard's. In the first inning, George Neville walked and Jeff Grate chopped a single up the middle. Tiger center fielder Frank Biondi obligingly ran right past the ball, allowing Neville to score and Grate to move to third. Dan Hootstein quickly drove Grate in with another single...
Harvard missed another opportunity in the sixth when Tiger pitcher Steve Cushmore walked three men to load the bases with one out. But Neville forced Neil Houston at the plate and Grate's long drive wound up in Biondi's glove...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, 87, able, globe-trotting ecclesiastical diplomat and administrator, director of the worldwide Roman Catholic missionary effort for the past 27 years, and a onetime (1923-33) apostolic delegate to the U.S.; after a long illness; in Rome. Head of a field force of approximately 95,000 missionary priests, nuns and lay brothers baptizing an estimated 500,000 converts each year, the cardinal urged the formation of a native clergy in Asia and Africa, lived to see more than 100 bishops and five cardinals chosen from those areas...
...Communism), one-Poland's Cardinal Wyszynski-has been seriously hampered by difficult communications, and another -Peking's Cardinal Tien-by ill health. And in all too many cases the crushing load of responsibility in Rome falls on such old men as 85-year-old Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi, whose responsibilities Cardinal Stritch was to have shared in running the church's missionary effort throughout the world...
...Alphonso Cardinal Stritch, "has an American prelate been appointed to such high office." He was referring to himself. From Rome last week came news that Pope Pius XII had appointed him proprefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Under the aged (85) prefect, Pietro Fumasoni Cardinal Biondi 70-year-old Cardinal Stritch will head the church's entire missionary effort...