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THE BATTALION
Thursday, May 12, 1955
Aggie, SMU Nines To Decide Championship Monday
By RONNIE GREATHOUSE
Battalion Sports Editor
A&M and SMU stand conspic
uously alone in the spotlight of
the Southwest conference base
ball race today after the Mus
tangs bumped TCU twice at Dal
las yesterday to pull into a tie
with the Aggies for first place.
The Aggies and Ponies both
stand 11-2 in conference action.
A&M is idle until Monday’s cru
cial clash with the Methodists at
Dallas, while SMU takes on Rice
in a single game Saturday at
Houston. The Cadets end their
season against Texas at Austin
Tuesday.
Coach Beau Bell gave his
charges a well-earned rest from
workout yesterday, but plans to
Joe Schero
Aggie Third Baseman
put in some long hours before
leaving for Dallas Sunday.
“We proved we could beat them
when they came down here,” said
Bell, “and I’m confident we can
do it again at Dallas. We’ve got
to.”
The Cadets’ title hopes took a
jolt when ace lefthander Joe
Hardgrove pulled a muscle in the
shoulder of his pitching arm
against Rice Tuesday. Hard-
gi-ove, the league’s leading hurler
with a perfect 6-0 mark, may not
be available for Monday’s show
down with SMU.
“I hurt my arm once before
like this,” said Hardgrove, “but
it soon was as strong as ever, and
I didn’t hurt it as bad this time.
I think I might be able to go if
I keep some heat on my arm, and
take car.e of it.”
Unless lowly Rice, currently
wallowing in the cellar with
TCU, upsets SMU in Saturday’s
contest the conference champion
ship will be decided Monday at
Dallas.
A&M can clinch the champion
ship by downing the Mustangs.
Tuesday’s game with Texas will
have no bearing on the outcome
of the title chase.
Third baseman Joe Schero
picked up eight points in the Rice
series to wrestle the Aggie bat
ting lead from Fred Ablon.
Schero garnered three hits in
seven trips to the plate against
Owl pitching to pull his confer
ence average up to a hefty .375.
Ablon tagged only one hit in
eight tries against Rice, but is
only two points behind Schero at
.373. Ablon is batting .325 over
the full season.
Dependable Charlie Puls pad
ded his average Tuesday, and is
Ill Extra Innings
Squadron 2 Wins
Softball Crown
Squadron 2 nicked C antiaircraft artillery 2-1 in extra
innings last night to win the upperclassmen intramural soft-
ball title.
Third baseman Tommy Durdin scored from second on
Jim Willborn’s single in the eighth, the first extra inning.
J. B. McLeroy pitched the win, twirling a three-hitter.
* It was the second straight
year squadron 2 had reached
Fish End
Play Tuesday;
Lose to Owlets
Their four - game winning
streak broken by a 3-2, 10-
inning loss to Rice’s Owlets,
the Aggie Fish close out their
baseball season with Wharton
junior cpllege Saturday and the
Texas frosh Tuesday.
The Wharton game is on the
road and the Shorthorn game here.
In Houston Tuesday, righthand
er Ira Oertling with a 2-1 lead,
had a six-hit, nine strike out win
apparently wrapped up with two
out in the Owlet 10th and two
strikes on rightfielder Claude
White.
Then White singled on a 2-2
pitch. Oertling got ahead 0-2 on
left fielder Tim Staples, but he
singled too. Another one-base
blow by Sid Schmidt scored the tie-
ing run, then third baseman Gor
don Maxwell committed his third
error of the game and Staples
scored from second with the win
ning run.
Oertling didn’t give up a hit un
til the fifth inning, when pitcher
Jerry Abernathy tripled with two
out. He had retired 11 in a row
after Maxwell’s error had put on
Bob Malinak to start the second.
Oertling faced only 21 men in the
first six innings.
the finals.
The air force team scored
once in the first off C AAA’s
Bruce Terry, but the army team
tied it 1-1 in the seventh, the last
inning of regular play.
Terry’s wild pitch brought in
squadron 2’s first run. After Joe
King struck out, Gene Miller sin
gled, Durdin sacrificed him to sec
ond, a walk to Jack Stich advanced
him to third, and he scored on the
wild pitch.
Left fielder John Sullivan blasted
a triple to lead off the AAA sev
enth. McLeroy struck out Gene
Nash, but Sullivan scored on Char
lie Sanders’ fielder’s choice.
In the eighth, Durdin walked,
Stich sacrificed him to second, and
when Willbom placed out a sin
gle, Durdin raced all the way home.
McLeroy retired the side in order
in the last of the eighth.
McLeroy pitched out of tight
spots in the second and third in
nings. A hit batsman and Jerry
Betsill’s single put runners at first
and second with one out in the sec
ond, but McLeroy got Sullivan and
Nash.
A double by Sanders and Will-
born’s error placed men at second
and third to start the next inning,
but Ben Alcala struck out, Ed Gil
more popped up and Terry ground
ed out.
The Fish went ahead 1-0 in the, BOSTON—O^P)—Billy Klaus’ first
second when catcher Ken Keener
singled and came around on Oert-
ling’s single, Don Smith’s fielder’s
choice and a passed ball.
After that, Abernathy, with three
double plays backing him, cut
down the Fish with two hits until
the 10th. He faced only 22 bat
ters from the third through the
ninth.
In the Fish 10th, Smith singled
with one out, his third of the game,
went to second on an error, took
third on Dennis Ham’s groundout
and scored on Maxwell’s single.
Rightfielder Ed Dudley, the lead
ing Fish hitter, got two singles in
Four trips to put his average at
457.
Boston Dumps
Chisox, 4-3
BOSTON—(A’)—Billy Klaus’ First
major league home run, a two-run
blast in the seventh inning, and
some clutch relief work by Ellis
Kinder in the ninth enabled Boston
to snap a five game losing streak
with a 4-3 victory over the Chicago
White Sox yesterday.
Kinder came in for winning
pitcher Frank Sullivan after a walk
to pinch-hitter Willard Marshall
and a single by Chico Carrasquel.
Boston held a 4-2 lead at that
point with two runners on and no
one out. Ed McGhee, who ran for
Marshall, scored on successive fly
balls by Nellie Fox and Minnie
Minbso but the game ended on
George Kell’s pop up to second,
hitting .333 in both season and Captain Les Byrd fattened his over the season and leads the to take credit for his fourth win down with three hits to record
conference play. He batted in average more than anyone on the Aggie club in homeruns with of the year against one loss. The his fourth victory of the confer-
what proved to be a very impor- Aggie squad this week by gain- five. sophomore righthander has a 1-1 ence campaign, and is the sti-ike-
tant run in the second game with ing 22 points. He is swinging Dick Munday turned in a fine won-lost record in loop contests. out leader of A&M’s mound staff
Rice. .315 in conference games, .333 relief job for Hardgrove Tuesday Big Jerry Nelson set Rice with 55.
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