PRINCETON HHH HASH #541.4



Date: February 4, 1996
Weather: Fluffy
Venue: West Windor/Hamilton Frozen Swamps to Chez Toxic
Time: 2:12 
Set By: Toxic Waste
Hashers: Rojo, Geezer, Delay LLLama, Rabbi Doolittle, Trash Can, Mike
McCabe, Safe Sweats, Kendra Hershey, 

Rookie: Steve (?) Bradley


The Return of  Kendra Hershey


Descriptions, comments, polemics, and lies:  Kendra never has had much
sense, or luck, with the PH3. Her second overall, and most recent hash
prior to this fateful afternoon (and evening) was  the infamous 300th, when
several not-very-well-evolved creatures from Reading decided to do a
roadtrip to (against?) Princeton. The effects of this visitation can be
seen from the fact that she never ran with us again, although she did
suffer a strange compulsion to write us long detailed accounts of her many
hashes with other folks all over the world. Now, as fate would have it, she
turns up on a Toxic Snow Hash. Toxic's trrack record under the best of
circumstances is highly irregular. Who can forget his mile-long false trail
following a dim F on #89 (April 12, 1986), or the Waxobee Arrow People,
(#172.2, May 8, 1988)? In snow, he loses all control and sets hashes that
are never finished (For example, recall Jeckyl and Hyde #154.2, January 10.
1988), and that rely on footprints for marks. On this day Toxic showed all
his talents. There was a mystery check "leading" to a solitary mark in the
woods a good half-mile away. There was an F followed not only by marks (we
were surely expecting that) but also by no less than two checks. So it was
no surprise that we labored for a full 2 hours+ on this wintry day before
being admitted finally to the warm innards of Chez Toxic and some decent
salsa.  We are taking bets on when we will see KH again.

Next week is the annual G run, in honour 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. Rabbi Doolittle, our Religious Advisor, 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 Malaya 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. I 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.




There will be a hashdinner subsidized, and perhaps fully funded, that
evening at Good Friends. The Geezer has asked for word on who is coming,
but essentially nothing has been forthcoming. Oh well, what could he
expect. I guess we'll just wing it.



#542.4  Sunday, February 11th, 2 pm, Someone sets the 1996 G Memorial Hash
#543.4  Sunday, February 18th, 2 pm, The LLLama sets the Losar Hash
#544.4  Sunday, February 25th, 21pm, 242 sets the 4th Annual Hard Corpse Hash

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