PRINCETON HHH HASH #492.4 

Date: February 5, 1995
Weather: Coldd
Venue: Squidd
Time: 0:55
Set By: Kitty Litter
Hashers:  RoJo, Delay Lllama, Geezer, Safe Sweats (deconstructed version),
Craig Wacker, Ed Martinez, Solo, Mark Wiranowski, In Up To His Waist, 242,
Joe Dolce
Rookies: Marlene Haas, Peter Rowinsky
First to Cooler: Joe Burns

                    "I dangled from a rope of sand" 

Description, polemics, comments, and lies: So writes the immortal Tom
Waits, and that's just what the pack did on this frozen day. Kitty Litter
led us on a tour of Bristol-Myers-Squidd, marking the foot of new snow with
sand. This made road running a bit chancy, but it worked well enough in the
snow. There was a nice ON IN with hot wine and no whining.

Speaking of whining, your scribe has just received a note from Wacko saying
that three putative hashers were left at the start. How Wacko would know,
as he cringes in his warm condo nursing his many sicknesses and injuries,
it's hard to imagine. But, I say, "read the shirt". This is getting close
to hard core time, and there is precious little mercy around these days.
However, in a curious and uncharacteristic fit of kindness I suggest that
we post the start location by email (if we know it). So Milkman, so Eye
Sore: let Wacko or the Geezer know the starting point of your doubltlessly
feeble effort next week and they, with nothing better to do, will post it
to the Princeton Hashnet. The rest of you wankers should read your email in
case you miss the start, or want to go there directly. Now, this business
worries me. It is getting precious close to "organization". The
mismanagement of the hash is worried by this trend, but agrees to try this
scheme anyway.

Speaking of next week, Hash #493.4 marks the most solemn moment in the
hashyear, the anniversary of the death of Albert "G" Gispert, one of the
founders of the mother hash in KL, and the person credited with coining the
phrase "Hash House" to describe the "running" group loosely associated with
the Selangor Club in KL. Mark Wiranowski, our Religious Advisor Without
Spiritual Excess (RAWSEX), will lead the services next week. A short bio of
G follows:

Born Alberto Stephano Ignatius Gispert to Spanish Catalan parents in London
in 1903, he later anglicised his name to Albert Stephen Ignatius Gispert
and became known as "G". He was a chartered accountant with Evatt & Co, and
was posted to Malacca in 1937 where he joined a club called the Springgit
Harriers who operated weekly under "hash" rules and are believed to have
been formed in 1935. Actually, the idea of Harriers chasing marks was not
new in Maylaya in the late '30s. Frederick "Horse" Thomson first became
involved with paperchases in Johore Bahru in 1932 and the Kinta Harriers
were active in Ipoh at the time. Some time between September and December
1938 G was among those (Thomson, G, Cecil Lee, "Torch" Bennett, Eric
Galvin, H. M. Doig) who founded the original club in Kuala Lumpur. Of
course, the war soon interrupted runs until 1946.

In December of 1941, Gispert rushed back from leave in Australia to join
the forces in Singapore, only to be killed in Dairy Farm Road, early on
February 11, 1942. To quote from the history of the Argyll and Sutherland
Highlanders: Chap. XI, p111, "About 0400 hours (11 Feb) a considerable
force of Japanese from track junction 751150 moved up the track for 200
yards to within ten yards of Battalion HQ and halted. They surprised and
silently caught Captain Gispert, the mortar officer, and three men, and
killed them."

On On, G.

Next Hashes:    #493.4  Sunday, February 12, 1995, 2 pm, I Soar and Milkman
                                                         set the Gispert Run
     	 	#494.4  Sunday, February 19, 1995, 2 pm, Duncan sets the Third 
                                                Annual Hard Core Hash. There is
						perhaps still time to toughen up
        	#495.4 Sunday, February 26, 1995, 2 pm, Mark Wiranowski sets?
         	#496.4 Sunday, March 5, 1995, 2 pm, Delay LLLama sets?