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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1927)
THE BATTALION The one cigarette in a million The instant a Camel is lighted, you sense that here is the distinctly better cigarette. And how this superior quality grows with the smoking! Choice to baccos tell their fragrant story. Patient, careful blending rewards the smoker with added pleasure. Camel is the one cigarette in a mil lion for mildness and mellowness. Its de cided goodness wins world popularity for Camel. Modern smokers demand superiority. They find it fulfilled in Camels, and place them overwhelmingly first. You should know the tastes and fragrances that choice tobaccos really give. Camels will reveal an entirely new pleasure. And the more of them you light, the more enjoyable. “Have a Camel!” R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. © 1927 THE ORIGINAL BLACK BOTTOMS The following report was made by an L. A. student when he was asked to discuss a modern agricultural prob lem. It seems that as an Ag. student the boy is a darn good mechanic, so without further ado and without Dean Kyle’s permission we submit the boy’s report on a subject that he con siders of vital agricultural import ance. The Cultivation of Black Bottoms There are three types of black bot toms, the first of which is the Mis sissippi black bottom. The Mississippi bottom is the largest black bottom in the world as it spreads from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the wet test and blackest bottom known. This is the bottom where most of the cane is raised for the production of sugar, and great is the good that the peo ple of America get from this pro ductive field. The second type is the African black bottom. From Africa we have a type of black bottom that is not so large as the Mississippi bottom and is not so easy to see in some parts of the country, but from the reports from Africa it is very black and the yield is very great, although we have found very little use for it since the Civil War. The main difference between this type of black bottom and that of the Mississippi is that the Mississippi is cultivated extensively and the Afri can bottom is cultivated intensively, each plot producing at least one crop every year. The third type is the A. & M. black bottom. This type of black bottom is cultivated almost exclusively by the sophomore class of the college. There may be a reason for this because the sophomores are the ones that * have the best ideas of the way the bottom ; was cultivated the year before. This form of cultivation takes place on about one thousand different plots, as any plot that is not cultivated is hard ly worth while. One of the most vital points for all those concerned is that each sophomore seems more than wil ling to work on every plot that is con nected with the school and small is the number that they miss. At the beginning this bottom is not so black but after a few workings by a sopho more, the bottom turns to a color that rivals that of the ones that are grown in the darkest jungles of Africa. Even though these bottoms are not as large or as wet as the Mississippi and do not start as black as the African, they do grow into good crops and are soon turned out to increase the pro duction of the crop for the succeed ing year. I thank you. P. S. The gentleman who gave this report evidently cannot do the twist necessary for the late black bottom dance, or has not been out of the thickets long enough to know that such ever existed or he would have included it in this brief but disastrous summary. HUNT ACHIEVES NATION-WIDE FAME Through his 97-yard run for a touchdown after receiving the ball on a kickoff in the game at College Sta tion Oct. 15 with the Arkansas Razor- backs, Captain Joel Hunt of the Texas Aggies stepped into the front ranks of grid stars whose names appear in the list of famous runs. Hunt’s feat was made all the more unique in that it came immediately after he had scored the opening touch down of the game in the second quar ter. On the kickoff that followed, he received the ball on his own three- yard line and raced like a greyhound through the whole opposing network of Razorbacks,* to score his second touchdown within a period of five minutes or less. In the list of “Famous Runs” from 1873 through the last season, appear- inging in Spalding’s Official Football Guide for 1927 and compiled by Parke H. Davis, is the name of a lone Texas player, J. V. Sikes, of the Texas Ag gies, who on Nov. 26, 1925, ran 92 yards for a touchdown in the game with the University of Texas played here on Kyle Field. The Aggies won that game 28-0. Sikes, a three letter man, is one of the regulars of this year’s Aggie team, playing end. He intercepted a forward pass for his 92-yard run of 1925. Hunt’s rim in the Razorback game gives the South west Conference and the Texas Ag gies another man in the list of fa mous runs. As a point maker, Hunt has started off with a vengeance this season. In the first four games in which the Ag gies have piled up a total of 134 points, 45 against Trinity, 31 against Southwestern, 18 against Sewanee and 40 against Arkansas, Hunt has accounted for a total of 64 points, or nearly half the total. He scored two touchdowns against Trinity, two against Southwestern, all three against Sewanee and three against Arkansas, making a total of ten touchdowns. He scored in addition in these first four games four points af ter touchdown with placekicks, two against Trinity, one against South western, and one against Arkansas. Say, that new farm hand is terribly dumb. How’s that? He found a lot of condensed milk cans in the cow pasture and insisted that it’s a cow’s nest. * * * “When shall we visit that naughty new night club?” “Any morning you say, my deah.” :|i * Hs Waiter—“Chicken ?” Flapper—’“Yes.” Waiter—“Neck?” Flapper—“Yes, if it’s dark, and he’s the right kind of a boy.” ❖ * * He: “Ah, my inspiration, I can’t do a thing without you!” She: “You poor sap, you’ve been sitting here on the sofa all night and haven’t done a thing with me yet!’” * * * Girls who wear cotton stockings are either overrconfident or else don’t give a whoop.