PRINCETON HHH HASH #644.4 Date: February 1, 1998 Weather: 75° and sunny, light balmy trade winds off the sea Venue: Outskirts of Trenton Time:   1:06 Set By: Throatwarbler Mangrove Hashers:  Wacko, Ice Blue Balls, Tree, Table Toes, Pyro Man, RoJo,          A Joy to His Mother, Geezer, Speed Bumps, Richmond Sarpong,          SaW, Justin Notestein, Dave Williams,          Drew Ronneberg, Colleen, Toxic Waste Rookies: Lev, Omar, Charles Micro-Rookie: Jacob Microwacko Descriptions, Polemics, and Lies: Past Rider, past Phillipe's Field of Merde, through the semi-swamps, biker trails, and fetid parks we went. Too much whining (but it is the Year of the Whine) about wet feet and half masticated cheese sticks, but basically it went well, given that it was set by someone not seen often anymore on our hashing trails (alas). Pyroman got lost of course, but that's par. And the rookies seem to have survived, which is often not. Now we pass into the high holidays of the hashyear. Next week we celebrate Darwin's Birthday ("Darwin was Wrong"), and, by accident of the calendar, the annual "G" hash, held by all hashes on the run day closest to February 11th, the day G was killed. Who was G? Here's a true (of course) mini-bio. 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. PLEASE NOTE   PLEASE NOTE  PLEASE NOTE  PLEASE NOTE  PLEASE NOTE There will be a hashdinner subsidized, and probably fully funded by your tax dollars, that evening at Good Friends in Princeton Junction. 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. Remember: February 22, 1998: There will be pain and there will surely be much suffering, but there will be finishers. NO MONEY, NO T-SHIRTS, NO WHINING, and, of course, absolutely NO MERCY! Hardt Kore and:  NEXT HASHES:  The setters are firm if no question mark appears. BUT NOTE the several Question Marks! Please respond if you can or cannot make the date! NEXT HASHES: #645.4: Sunday, February 8th, Annual G Hash, Annual Darwin's Birthday Hash: 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Pinup Sets         Remember the       Annual HashCash Dinner afterwards at Good Friends, ca. 6:15 February 14, 1998 Ken Verkammen sets in Edison. For details watch the hashnet for a posting. #646.4: Sunday, February 15, 1998, Speedbumps sets #647.4 Sunday, February 22, 1998, HARD CORPSE VI, The Cuban Assassin and Wacko Set. #648.4 Sunday, March 1, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Delay LLama sets the Losar Hash #649.4  Sunday, March 8, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Hey Yo! Paully Sets?? #650.4 Sunday, March 15, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Toxic Waste and Wrong Way set the Ides Hash #651.4 Sunday, March 22, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Dave, Drew, and Colleen set?? #652.4 Sunday, March 29, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Table Toes and Valerie set #653.4 Sunday, April 5, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Rich Sarpong and Brian Kraybill set??