Page fi College Station, Texas Friday, May 17, 1963 THE BATTALION Candy Spots Picked To Win 87th Preakness Saturday BALTIMORE (A>)—The buzzing over whether Chateaugay, Never Bend or Candy Spots is likely to cop the richest prize for 3-year- olds, the 87th Preakness on Satur day, continued unabated Thursday despite the entry of five others. The one mild surprise entry, William B. Robinson’s Rural Re treat, did nothing to change the majority opinion that the scrap at the end of the 1 3/16-mile race will be among the leading trio from the Kentucky Derby. MOST STUDENTS of form around Pimlico considered Rural ARMY, WHAT IS AGGIELAND TO YOU? Aggieland means many different things to many different people. To some it is the place they met their lifetime friends and received their formal education, to others it is the place they learned how to be a man and to get along with their fellow man. Although Aggieland may have a special meaning for each Aggie, all have memories of yelling for that Fightiu’ Aggie Team as we beat T. U. or of singing The Twelfth Man when we didn't yell loud enough. Army, when we go home after these finals let’s throw our chests out and tell the world that we are proud to be a Fightin’ Texas Aggie. Let’s keep alive the heritage left to us by our buddies we’ve honored with Silver Taps who are no longer able to share it with us. Ole Army Lou ’32 Retreat’s entry as merely adding $1,000 to the pot. If Robinson wants to go for a second $1,000 for starting, there will be $180,000 to distribute with the winner’s share $127,500. That’s mighty rich for Rural Retreat’s blood. He’s won two out of 16 races for total earnings of $11,506. BY CONTRAST, Chateaugay has put $134,770 in the pocket of John W. Galbreath of Columbus, Ohio, so far this year. Harry F>. Guggenheim of New York is richer by $527,000 from the performances of Never Bend with his second year of racing less than five months gone, and Rex Ellsworth of Cali fornia has counted $349,000 from only seven races by Candy Spots. The probable odds will start on the tote board Saturday with Candy Spots 7-5, Chateaugay and Never Bend 5-2. It will be up to the bettors after that to decide. Old Smokey Is Tops In Field As Ag Trainer Charles ‘Smokey” Harper is con sidered to be the fatherly tjjj^e GRAND OLD MAN Smokey Harper aids\ ailing athletes when it comes to taking care ' of the Texas Aggie football players. The veteran "trainer watches with an eagle eye the injuries that occur and sees that they are taken care of. During the pre-season football workouts, Smokey is always on hand with a cold towel to wet down some overheated gridder. When someone gets hurts or comes down with the cold, Harper makes darn sure they ai’e in good condition before he lets them back on the practice field. If a player gets hurt on the field during practice, he is always there in a hurry and will stay with the boy till he gets treatment. Smokey came to A&M in 1954 from Kentucky with Paul “Bear” Bryant. Since then, he has wor*ked under Jim Myers, and Coach Hank Foldberg is still employing his services. The grand oF man of the Aggie training room has been in the tape and pill business for 36 years. rTwrirlTfc' fWTVTVffffl “Sports Car Center* Dealers for Renault-Peugeot & British Motor Cars Sales—Parts—Service ’“We Service All ForeignCi 1422 Texas Ave. TA2-S B-js sunt.a.iij’ UXU.U.LUUUUU1 AGGIES Volum! We Will Buy For Cl All Books That Will 6 On The September Book List. ) Ollj MOVING? Complete Moving Sera Packing—Transportation- N Storage Beard Transfer & Stoif Agent For UNITED VAN LI1 TA 2-28315 707 S. Tabor, Bryan A Ai 1 and K( He i fas gradi Professional Basketball Team Comes Back To Philadelphia ;V : The A&M Donut Shop “NEW OWNERS” Ralph Stevens ’61 - Art Thompson ’65 —Air Conditioned— Lunches (Weekdays) Open 7 A. M. -12 P. M. 5c COFFEE Weekdays 3 - 5 P. M. Saturday 1 - 5 P. M. PHILADELPHIA > — Big time professional basketball is coming back to Philadelphia, but fans here don’t know whom they should thank. A cloak of secrecy was thrown around the new owners after it was announced that the franchise of the Syracuse Nationals in the National Basketball Association had been sold to them for $500,000. The sale and move must be co firmed by the NBA directors. This is routirle and will take place at a meeting called by Maurice Po- doloff, outgoing NBA president, in New York next Wednesday. PODOLOFF also declined to throw any light on the identity of the new owners. Isaac Richman, a member of the Philadelphia law firm of Rich- man, Price and Jamieson which BEB UNIVERSITY BOOK SHOP (Formerly Shaffer’s) Is Having A BOOK handled the sale, merely described the combine as a group of Phila delphia businessmen not previously associated with sports. He said definitely not a member was Eddie Gottlieb, former own er of the Philadelphia Warriors franchise which was moved to San Francisco before last season. DAN BIASONE, owner of the Syracuse Nationals, said he had to sell because “it simply got to be impossible to operate.” The Nats have been members of the NBA since it was formed 17 years ago. Biasone said the cost of operat ing the club in Syracuse amount ed to $366,000 last season and promised to reach $500,000 next year. He added that the club stood to lose $100,000 if it stayed in Syracuse. Dale (House) Easley led the University of Washington basket ball team in scoring last season with 395 points in 26 games. 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