PRINCETON HHH HASH #809.4 

Date: January 21, 2001
Weather: ice
Venue: Pennington
Set by: Throatwarbler Mangrove
Time: 1:15

Hashers: Rojo, Geezer, Discomfort, OuiPui, Ice Blue Balls, LLLoda, 
Wacko, Juicy, Hey Yo! Paully, Second Story, Louisiana reptile Fancier
and not to forget: Tropical Depression!

Descriptions, Polemics, and Lies: An hour into this snowbound 
tour of Lesser Pennington, YBS was running uphill through eight 
inches of snow with both feet frozen from a January stream crossing. 
Doesn't get much better than that, especially with the prospect of a 
potato chip or even two at the On In. A great warmup for the Hard 
Kore IX, though, that's for sure. Yes, gentlepersons, it is that 
time of year again. Get your affairs in order, notify your next of 
kin, make arrangements to get those ashes scattered properly, 
because few ever finish or even survive the PH3 Hard Korpse Hash. 


NO MONEY, NO T-SHIRTS, NO WHINING, 

and, of course, 

Absolutely NO MERCY!

Hardt Kore IX


And on that somber note, I must point out that we are now entering the 
High Holy Days of the PH3. Strange confluences abound this year, even 
though the Tibetan New Year doesn't begin till February 24th, at which 
time the LLLama may return on the Astral Plane to brew us up some chang. 
This year, Hard Coar IX coincides with the anniversary of G's death, 
and thus with our memorial G hash. Who was G, I hear you wonder. I'll 
close this writeup with a brief bio:

Born Alberto Stephano Ignatius Gispert to Spanish Catalan parents in 
London in 1903, he later Anglicized 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 Argyle and 
Sutherland Highlanders: Chap. XI, p. 111, "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:

#810.4, Sunday, January 28, 2001: SOMEBODY PLEASE VOLUNTEER!!!!

#811.4, Sunday, February 4, 2001: Topical Repression and Ice Blue Balls 
set the Prelude to Pain.

#812.4 Hard Core IX. Pyroman and WeePee will give us a pain, and there 
will surely be much suffering, but there will be no whining and no 
T-shirts.