THE BATTALION
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© 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.