STEVENSON HALL HHH HASH #122


Date:  April 12, 1987

Weather:  unassuming 

Set by:  Courtney, Pushner

Runners:  Smith, Dilley, Patton, Wachspress, Burns, the Geezer, Kaufman, Effross, 
McCart, Quackenbush, Tarlach, Ryan, Gibson, Hiser

"First to Cooler"  Joe Burns , Hiser


Description, comments:  This hash, a virtual gerontocracy of returned vets and crafty, 
longtime SHHH runners started at St. Joe's in Kingston.  One might have expected the 
sly old masters to have out pysched their less experienced cousins, but that would be 
without reckoning either with faded skills or the special nature of the end of this hash.  
Once blessed by the Saint,  the pack ran immediately into woods, trampling myriad 
spring beauties, trout lillies and bloodroots----and becoming lost.  Marks seemed 
secondary to aimless thrashing amidst the flowers until Aqueduct Road was found.  The 
trail entered the woods and crossed to the canal path -- a well known cul-de-sac. Effross 
and Hiser led the group into the obvious trap while some more worldly wise kept to the 
road, waiting for the pack to emerge, as they thought it must.  Their craft was rewarded 
with a missed short cut across the concrete edge of the canal lock--the site of poor 
Andy Porges' demise in 1981 when the Geezer threw him into the canal on the 
infamous hash #9, set by Andy Kaufman and the Aethereal One.    By now, neither 
Kaufman nor the A.O., all too Corporeal these days, was anywhere to be seen, and 
Wachspress, Gibson, Smith and the Geezer were off on a long looping trap leading to 
the Harrison St. Bridge, so easily reached via the short cut.  Wachspress vanished 
running past an "F" and Gibson and Smith came upon Effross and Hiser running up 
Fitzrandolph road.  Effross and Hiser had taken the short cut and thus had an immense 
lead on the rest of the pack.  Their checking must have been singularly inept for them to 
be still in sight at this point, but then that's no great surprise.

The trail ran past Stevenson into campus and then briefly faked into town before 
running straight to the setters' room in Spelman. Hiser looked Courtney and Pushner up 
in the directory, asked the campus cops for an escort and was delivered right to the 
end.  

Next Hashes:

#123, Sunday, April 19.  The Easter Keg Hunt.  Havens and Hiser set-  NOTE NOTE 
NOTE NOTE NOTE -it's a 12:30 start behind Stevenson 91.

#124, Sunday, April 26, 2 p.m., Stevenson 91, Effross sets.