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Page 10 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1978 Waldrep to return home United Press International MOSCOW — American parap legic Kent Waldrep checked out of the hospital in Leningrad Thursday reported “in good shape” following Soviet treatment that his father says has resulted in “remarkable prog ress.” Waldrep is to fly to London with Eddie Dominguez '66 Joe Arciniega '74 his parents Friday. The 24-year-old former football player who broke his neck and was paralyzed from the neck down while playing for Texas Christian Univer sity in 1974 hopes to fly on to Dallas and his home in Grand Prairie, Texas on Sunday. “His father told me they want Kent to see at least some of Lenin grad before he leaves,” a nurse at the Polenov Institute in Leningrad said on the telephone explaining why he left the hospital a day early. “He was in good shape very cheery quite normal,” she said. Waldrep’s 47-year-old father Al has said Kent has made “remarkable progress” since he entered the spe cial clinic six weeks ago and began an intensive course of enzyme treat ment and physical therapy. If you want the real thing, not frozen or canned . . . We call It "Mexican Food Supreme." Dallas location: 3071 Northwest Hwy 352-8570 The Soviet doctors have also had him breathe concentrated oxygen in an effort to stimulate his damaged nerve ends. The doctors and Kent’s parents were rewarded when he developed a slight twitching in his right hand the first sign of returning movement in four years. Al Waldrep said Kent’s overall physical condition was stronger too because the doctors have made him stand up every day in a walker. He said he and his 46-year-old wife Denise were “well pleased” with the Soviet treatment. + The same treatment was unavaila ble in the United States because the Soviet doctors are using an enzyme — Ledaza — which is not authorized by the Food and Drug Administra tion. The doctors in Leningrad have given Waldrep’s father a supply of Ledaza and instruction on how to administer it with a hypodermic syringe so that the treatment can be continued in the United States. Waldrep says he foresees no prob lem in bringing the enzyme into the United States. HEV Watch Sunday Af ternoon and Mon day Night Football While Sipping Your Favorite Drink With ALL Your Friends at The Aggieland Inn. BIG Draft beer 25C SCREEN!!! Highballs SOC RAVE. a V Aggie Xmas Shopping List « Dear Mom and Dad, Here’s what I want for Christmas: ‘MARDI GRAS TRIP $58. celebrate Fat Tuesday in New Orleans Feb. 23-25,1979, for ‘SNOW SKIING at WOLF CREEK — for $235 get round trip transportation, five days of lift tickets, family-style lodging with breakfast and dinner every day. (March 9-16). ‘SNOW SKIING at TAOS — spend March 9-16 on the slopes. Round trip transpor tation, motel-type lodging and six days of lift tickets are included in trip price - $230. ‘SAIL THE FLORIDA KEYS — an educational experience on the high seas. Learn to sail the square rigger used in the movie “Roots” (March 9-16, $420). ‘EUROPEAN TOURS — May 14 - June 7, see Europe. Grand Tour of England, Holland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and France for $946. The Iberian Tour of Spain, Morocco, Portugal and England for $1075. Add $379 airfare to the price of either option for the cost of the trips. ‘MEXICO TRIP — celebrate the end of school May 11-18. Drink, dance and lie in the sun in Acapulco for $295. ‘CARIBBEAN TRIP — Lay back and live a little. Soak in the Caribbean sunshine May 19-26. Since I’ve been so good this year, any of the above will satisfy my Christmas wish. Your Loving Aggie, P.S. Transportation rates are subject to change which may affect any trip price. For trip information contact MSC Travel Committee, P.O. Box 5718, College Station, Tx 77844 or (713) 845-1515. DID YOU SEE HOW BAD WE BEAT SAM HOUSl~ON ST/KTE ? WATC W IT/ REMEMBER M3W WE STARTED! AND REMEMBER TO FINISH BY BEATING- IOWA STATEi dp (970 Rose’s hustling, has payed off United Press Internationa] ORLANDO, Fla. — Don’t ever let anyone tell you it doesn’t pay to hustle. Pete Rose, baseball s newest overnight multimillionaire, is per fect proof it does. Back in 1962, just before coming up with the Cincinnati Reds, he was with Macon, Ga., of the South Atlan tic League and they were paying him $400 a month. Now here it is 16 years later and he has just gotten himseli more than $3 million from the Philadelphia Phil lies. Basically, Pete Rose is only doing what every other player in baseball should do. He’s hustling. The fact nobody else hustles as much as he does makes him stand out in the manner he does. Rose is anything but your picture ballplayer. He can’t run and can’t throw. His swing, as he sometimes says himself, looks as if it were made in Japan, and at 37, he obviously has passed his peak. Yet, Ruly Carpenter, the Phillies’ president and a man with ordinarily good sound business sense, shelled out $3.2 million over four years for him and when you take everything into account. Carpenter seems to have gotten himself a splendid buy. “I sat down and analyzed all the facts around Pete Rose,” said the Phillies’ boss following Tuesday’s special news conference at the winter baseball meetings, where the former Reds’ third baseman was un veiled as the Phillies’ newest member. “I considered what he could mean to the future of our ball club, to the future of our TV and radio contracts and to all the other aspects of our operation,” Carpenter went on. “Skill-wise, there are better ballplayers than him when it comes to his ability to run, to throw or even to swing the bat, but he has it over all of them in one other respect. They don’t have that inner substance he has.” Ruly Carpenter never said any truer words. Rose never quits hustling. He never quits running, either. He s the only player in the history of the game who keeps trying to beat out a base on balls. “I try to make the guys tired just watching me play, he said, wearing his new crimson Phillies’ cap at Tuesday’s session. Rose has made his extraordinary hustle pay off to such a degree that he’ll make nearly as much next year as Babe Ruth earned in his entire career. With his new contract, he’s now the highest paid player in all baseliall history from the standpoint of salary in a single season, anyway, and when asked how he felt about it, he said: “I don’t know if I am. If you say I am, I agree with you. I played with some great players, Clemente, Mays, Aaron and Marichal, and it took me a long time to get to the top of my profession. I want to be paid right. If the other guys are getting it. 1 wanna get it, too. Rose shied away from sayingi cisely how much he would t»ep the Phillies. “All I could tell you is; stack it up and a show doge jump over it,” he laughed. The Phillies were Roses! choice from the start after theva one of the 12 clubs who ( in last month’s reentry dn looked as if they might not j though, after they met withF his exceptionally capable i Reuven Katz of Cincinnati, because the Pirates, Royals, and Cardinals all were offeringa money. Batt Pix Week 14 GAME Dallas-Philadelphia Houston-New Orleans . . . Oakland-Miami Seattle-San Diego Washington-Atlanta Green Bay-Chicago Buffalo-New England . . . St. Louis-N.Y. Giants . . . . Tampa Bay-San Francisco N.Y. Jets-Cleveland David Boggan Mark Patterson Sean Petty . Dallas W Dallas by 8 Dallas by 9 Houston by 7 Houston by 13 Houston k Miami by 3 Miami by 6 Miami Seattle by 6 San Diego by 2 Seattle k Atlanta by 4 Washington by 4 Atlanta k . . . .Green Bay by 7 Green Bay by 7 Green Bay by .New England by 13 . . .New England by 16 . .. .New Englandb) . . .N.Y. Giants by 5 St. Louis by 10 N.Y. Giantsk . . .Tampa Bay by 10 Tampa Bay by 4 Tampa Bay by N.Y. Jets by 9 N.Y. Jets by 6 N.Y. 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