Hilltopper (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 21, 1954 Page: 4 of 6
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Friday, May 21, 1954
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Salvage Bureau
Asks for Clothes
Have you any old clothes that
you are planning to discard at
the end of this school year?
There is always the problem of
disposal of unwanted articles of
clothing that are left at the close
of each school year.
Take stock of your wardrobe
with an appraising eye, and set
aside those articles which you
do not wish to take home with
you again. They will be picked
up by the Catholic Salvage Bur-
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Pete Benet, a senior from
Chihuahua, Mexico was nam-
ed Most Valuable in baseball
for 1954 by the St. Edward’s
Council 2559, Knights of Col-
umbus at the annual Honors
Banquet held last Monday.
Benet, a three year letter-
. man in baseball also partici-
pated in intramural competi-
tion and was a member of the
winning football team, Tex’s
Terrors’ He also competed in
intramural basketball.
For two years, Coach Ed Norris
played Benet in centerfield where
his sparkling defensive play and
shoe string catches were instru-
mental in winning many games.
Last year Benet was able to muster
a hearty .315 batting average, but
this year with a team that was
weak at the plate, Benet was able
to manage only 261. Even so, he
was third in batting only to A. R.
Lema and Armando' Herrera. Lema
paced the club with .390 while
Herrera hit .209.
Although regularly a centerfield-
er, Benet was switched in the mid-
dle of the season this year to fill
a vancancy caused partly by Abbie
Anderson dropping from school and
George Pappas’ inability to hit.
Benet is a Business Administra-
tion major and a member of the
Knights of Columbus. His parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Benet live
in Chichuahua and Pete plans to
be married to Gayle Everett May
31 in Our Lady of Victory Chapel.
MOST VALUABLES—Pete Ben-
et and Jack Hellett (above) were
named most valuable players in
basketball Monday night at the
annual Honor’s Night Banquet.
Benet, a three year letterman is a
senior and this year hit .261. Ben-
et also proved his versatility by
moving from centerfield to third
base when Coach Ed Norris found
a definite need for someone to
handle that position. Hellett, the
Turk from Pa., led the Hilltoppers
in basketball to the 1954 Big
State Conference crown and wrap-
ped up this year one of the best
basketball careers on the Hilltop.
For the past two years, Hellett,
led the Hilltoppers in practically
everything and last year he set a
new scoring mark for the Eds-
men.
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narrow 2-1 defeat on the St. Ed-
Lutheran ward’s field. Again errors were the
the Hilltoppers another
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had begun it, but in between two
losses to Brooke Army Medical
Center of San Antonio were sand-
wiched many tight, well-played
games. St. Ed’s just always seemed
to lack that final punch to win
the close ones. And then there
were errors, too.
In the first game after the last
issue of the paper was published,
the Bergstrom Jets continued their
domination of the Edsmen by win-
ning 3-0 on the margin of six er-
rors committed by Coach Ed Norris’
team. Tom McLaughlin pitched
what should have been a winning
six-hitter, but his teammates could
squeeze out only four hits against
rival pitcher Coppock. Herrera col-
lected two of these hits.
The Edsmen won their second
game of the season over the visit-
ing Southwestern University Pi-
rates, revengefully running the
score up to 15-6. Tomaszkiewicz
was credited with the victory, a
creditable 7-hitter oh his part,
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hitting this year, that was the
question many of the Hilltoppers
sitting on the bench were wonder-
ing. Colorful for the varied ex-
pressions that can be found on
the players’ faces is this photo-
graph taken of the bench. Hilary
Hunt, on the far left, seems to be
about ready to sneeze while
George Pappas, next to him, is
either scratching his knee or
pointing to a groundhog. Armando
Herrera decided to bite them off
rather than cut them while John
Burk was laughing at the joke he
told to, Benet which Benet didn’t
think was so funny. Mitchell
Tomaszkiewicz was hoping the
pitcher would stay in and was
wondering if the team would make
supper. Benches, they’re wonder-
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Turk Climaxes
Four Years
As Hilltopper
Jack Hellett collected an-
other honor at the Awards
Banquet held Monday, May
17, when he was . named by
the Knights of Columbus as
the Most Valuable Basketball
Player during the 1953-54
season.
He was presented his award
by Grand Knight John Ikard,
who also presented the award
to the outstanding baseball
player, during the after-din-
ner ceremonies.
The flashy Turk was once more
the principal source of color on
the Hilltopper courts as he led the
team in scoring with 398 points in
23 games for a 17.3 points per
game average. In ten conference
games he scored 178 points for a
17.8 average. He attempted 295
Field Goals, completed 145 for a
491 percentage. He attempted 153
Free Throws, completed 108 for a
.705 percentage.
As a climax to his four-year
career on the St. Edward’s team,
during which he scored 1175 points
and set an all-time record for sin-
gle season scoring in 52-53 with
448 points, he was chosen earlier
in the year as co-captain of the
basketball team for the 53-54 sea-
son. He was also captain the year
before.
He was also a unanimous choice
of the coaches of the Big State
Conference for a place on the All-
Conference first team, this being
the second year that he had been
chosen for that honor.
Before entering St. Edward’s,
Hellett played basketball through-
out Europe for the Turkish Olym-
pic team in international games.
He was top scorer in three tourna-
ments — at Cairo, Naples and Nice.
Perhaps his chief honor was “The
Best Player in Europe Award” that
he received in 1949.
This past season his top scoring
spree was against Southwest Tex-
as State when he bucketed 27 points
in the first half and added three
more in the second half that found
him constantly surrounded by three
guards.
One of his most spectacular shots
was made against arch-rival, St.
Mary’s, during the last five seconds
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