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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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Mark
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Sean
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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. Jetsby
Last week’s record 7-3
Season’s percentage 707
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