Page 4 THE BATTALION
Wednesday, March 16, 1955
Hardgrove Is King of Swing On, Off Pitching Mound
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Staff
Versatile Joe Hardgrove’s talents
run from baseball pitcher to saxo
phone player, and either way he
has ’em swinging.
The 6-2 southpaw from Fort
Worth currently tops the Aggies’
fine pitching staff with a 1-0 rec
ord. He has fanned 19 batters in
13 innings of chunking to rank
first among A&M twirlers, and has
been charged with no runs.
An all-state and all-city perform
er for Paschal high school of Fort
Worth, Hardgrove helped hoist his
team to the state finals as a sopho
more and the state championship
as a junior.
In the 1949 state finals Hard
grove lost a close game to Sunset
of Dallas while striking out 12.
The following year he sparked
Paschal to the finals again with a
6-0 record, and won the champion
ship game on a four hitter, whif
fing 13.
Besides being all-state in base
ball for two years, he was also
named to the all-state basketball
team his senior year. He was all-
city in both baseball and basketball
foi* three straight seasons.
Between stints on the baseball
mound and the basketball court
Hardgrove takes up the saxophone
as a hobby, and blows a “real mean
horn.” He played with a dance
band in the Cowtown area during
his high school career.
“I like Stan Kenton, he’s real
groovy you know,” said Hardgrove.
In his senior year at Paschal he
turned in two brilliant no-hitters
in a row—but lost them both, 3-1
and 2-1.
Hardgrove is one of only four
two-year lettermen on Coach Beau
Bell’s squad this season. As a soph
omore he finished with a 1-3 record,
and led A&M’s moundsmen last
season with a 6-4 mark, posting an
earned run average of only 3.1.
He was the strike-out artist of
the club last year with 61 strike
outs and leads so far this season
with 19.
The 21-year-old senior belted a
grand slam homerun against the
University of Texas last season to
give A&M a 5-4 win over the con
ference champions.
“All I did was take two, and hit
to right,” said Hardgrove, explain
ing his fenfce busting technique.
Hardgrove has played two years
of basketball at A&M, and was a
starter in 1953-54. He avei-aged
over eight points per game.
Hardgrove thinks his best pitch
ed game came in the summer of
1951 when he was tossing for Co
lumbus against Ft. Sam Houston.
Although he lost the 16-inning 2-1
thriller, he gave up only three hits.
The Ft. Sam Houston lineup was
filled with former professional
players.
He thinks his performance
against U of H earlier this season
is one of the best he’s twilled for
A&M. He whiffed 13 players in
taking credit for the 7-0 Aggie
win, and gave up only four hits.
None of the hits came after the
fourth inning, and all came in sep
arate frames.
“I’ve played under Coach Bell
for two years now, plus two sum
mers at Refugio, and everything he
has told me to do has always help
ed me,” said Hardgrove.
He plans to take a crack at pro
fessional baseball this summer, and
then start coaching basketball. He
is an English and Physical Educa
tion major.
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said. “It looked like everybody
was having a good time. I’ve been
disappointed with the progress
we’ve made so far, but if we pick
up where we left off today, we can
get a lot done in our remaining
four days.”
Passing offense and defense will
receive most of the attention the
rest of the spring drills. The Ag
gies are due to finish next Mon
day.
“We haven’t thrown the ball
enough,” Bryant said. “We’re go
ing to work on it every day.”
Quarterbacks Donald Grant, Bob
by Conrad and Jimmy Wright han
dled the throwing chores yesterday.
The Maroons, Blues and Whites
finished with a session on extra
points and punt protection after
about 50 minutes of contact work.
Quarterback Elwood Kettler, end
Bobby Drake Keith, halfback Billy
Pete Huddleston, and tackle Henry
Clark were added to the injury list
after Saturday’s game - condition
scrimmage.
“Our defense Saturday was piti
ful in the movies,” said Bryant.
Eight touchdowns were scored, but
commenting on the defensive weak
ness, Biyant said, “There should
have been five more.”
The Maroon team yesterday had
Gene Stallings and Roger Hobson
ends; Charles Krueger and Jack
Powell, tackles; Dee Powell and
Dennis Goehring, guards; Herb
Wolf, center; Grant, quarterback;
John Crow and Ed Dudley, half
backs; Ken Hall, fullback.
The Blues lined up this way —
Ends, Bobby Marks and Dean
Meeks; tackles, Darrell Brown and
Dan Hancock; guards, Jim Stanley
and Paul Lillard; center, Hollis
Pollard;'quarterback, Wright; half
backs, Lloyd Taylor, Roddy Os
borne and Billy Dendy alternating
fullback, Jack Pardee.
Conrad guided the Whites with
Carlos Esquival, Don McClelland
and Bob Stolusky at halfbacks, and
Bobby Ewell at fullback.
A&M’s unbeaten pistol team
swaggered through the National
Rifle Association meet at Tampa,
Fla. March 8-12 to win the na
tional championship in the college
division.
Captain Toby Chandler, Joe Mar
tinez, Frank Norvell and Ken
Snipes piled up 1,059 points be
tween them to walk away with
the crown.
Snipes tied for fourth place in
the .22 caliber slow fire event of
the sharpshooter class.
“They turned in some great per
formances,” said Sgt. Robert G.
Cox, team coach, “and were a fine
group to work with.”
There were four divisions in the
match which included military, po
lice, civilian and collegiate. A&M
would have won second place in
the civilian division had it not al
ready won a championship, said
Cox.
The pistol team flew to the
match in an air force plane, and
was accompanied by officer in
charge Capt. Thomas H. Libby.
Col. Henry L. Phillips, sponsor of
the team was unable to attend the
meet.
Presentation of the championship
trophy will take place during the
awards ceremony on Mothei , ’s day.
Each member of the team will re
ceive an individual medal also.
A&M won the collegiate cham
pionship at the Alamo Rifle and
Pistol club meet earlier in tin
year, and finishes the season with
a perfect slate.
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Aggie Mound Ace
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Winner over Rice and loser to
Texas in their last two matches,
the A&M Handball club plays SMU
in Dallas Saturday afternoon at
the Dallas Athletic club.
The Aggies downed Rice 7-2 in
Houston Monday night after losing
to Texas 1-7 in Austin Friday.
A&M swept the three doubles
matches from Rice and won four
of the six singles matches.
Jim Mathis, Johnny Johnson,
Dave Korry and Charlie Johnson
took decisions in singles play. Win
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Also playing at Austin were
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Tentative plans for the Inter
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April 21-23 were discussed at a re
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Steele, club president.
The rodeo committees have been
appointed and are working on
plans, said Steele, but nothing de
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