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Macau is the Portuguese version of Hong Kong, colonized in the 16th century. It is smaller than its cousin and famous for gambling (fast ferry boats bring the rich over from Hong Kong and take the poor home again). Perhaps because of its Portuguese background, hashing did not catch on here in the same way as it has in Hong Kong. Taipa Macau H3 was founded June 1998 by Rob ‘The Captain’ Kirby (ex Wanchai). They run every Saturday and at other times frequent the Irish Bar. The hash tend to use the excellent Tsing Tao beer which, according to ex-beermaster Nancy Boys Hughes, 'is a fine beverage from a brewery founded by the Germans in Tsing Tao, China, which still brews the same concoction after all these years.' In fact the pack can get a bit sulky if anything else is poured!
Granddad
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Well done Shakesprick on a task long overdue and surely welcomed by the
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Wife of Gus. She was made honourable Hash Mistress when Milan incorporated the Bordighera Hash.
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Mackie, GusGus Mackie is now recognized and honoured as the man who founded Bordighera H3, the second oldest kennel in the world. He had worked for the British military on the Malayan Peninsula during the 1930’s and would join his brother on the Hash when visiting KL. He spent the war in Europe and became a prisoner of war after being captured at Anzio. He later inherited a house from a mysterious aunt and settled on the Italian Riviera, where he persuaded the local ex-pat community to form the Bordighera H3. Gus died in 1971 and is remembered every year on the ‘Ghost of the Coast Hash’ Left - annual Ghost of the Coast run at Finale Ligure
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Mackie, RupertRupert was brought up in Kenya, sent to school in South Africa and University in England before coming to KL to work on the rubber plantations during the thirties. It was Rupert, rather than his brother Gus, who regularly turned out with the Mother Hash.. During the war he was captured by the Japanese and his health never recovered from his experiences in the prisoner of war camps. After the war Rupert joined his brother in Italy, where he probably helped to organize the Bordighera H3.
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Robin ‘Mclikka’ McNaught was one of the original Hash travellers, making a 3 year world
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Nothing has been heard from the Antananarivo H3 for several years.
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George ‘Mad George’ Wiles was one of the ringleaders behind Edinburgh gaining their reputation of being hash animal
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Alice ‘Mad Rushin’ Johnson was author of the 1990 Publicaion ‘Half a Mind’. See Half a Mind
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Jan ‘Mad Swede’ Anderson works as a chef, most notably for the Swedish Ambassador in New York. During his first New York posting in the late seventies there was no hash, so this former water polo and badminton player turned to running, completing 10km in 41 minutes, a very respectable time for such a big guy. He became a regular hasher during a second posting to New York (1988-1992) and continued on a shorter spell in Washington. On returning to Sweden he became a leading figure in local hash scene, filling most committee roles over the years, perhaps most notably as long term haberdasher. His apartment in Stockholm had a special room that was a mini hash museum and lined with a stunning collection of beer cans. By then knee problems had limited Mad Swede to walking but he showed a supernatural accuracy for finding the right trail, even when any sign of paper has long ago disappeared. A regular visitor to the big events, he also took advantage of the weak dollar to take a contingent of Stockholm hashers across to New York for the St Lucia Run that he had been founder of. Weekend hashes at his apartment in Västerås led to the founding of Westren Aros Gurka H3 in March 2006. |
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Timothy John Patrick Hughes, universally known simply as ‘Magic’, made a contribution to modern hashing that has been unequalled. This devotion to Hashing worldwide was often at great personal cost to both his bank balance and health. Magic was born in Staffordshire, England in 1944. A talented musician, he played with Bern Elliot and the Fenmen, who had a 1963 hit singing the Beatles song ‘Money’. Magic then became a businessman, moving to Bangkok in 1969 as Managing Director of the Ford Motor Company, selling mostly Ford cars and tractors to up-country sugar cane farmers. It was in Bangkok that Tim was introduced to hashing, joining Bangkok in 1979 on their 112 run. He was appointed GM of Bangkok H3 in 1982 and first attended InterHash in 1984, where he headed the Pattaya bid to host the next event. Two years later his vision of InterHash coming to Thailand became reality as Magic mismanaged the hugely successful InterHash Pattaya 1986. This was probably his proudest Hash achievement and ‘Magic’ was on a Hash high for weeks afterwards Soon after InterHash 1986, he left Ford to become a consultant in travel, conventions and Hashing. However, less and less of Magic’s energy went into consultancy, as he became more and more a full time Hasher and writer. His Hash publications, Harrier International, Hares and Hounds and the World Hash Handbook, helped fuel the 1980s Hashing boom. He travelled the world to interview pre-war Hashers, thus recording much of our current knowledge of early Hashing. While some may criticise the creeping commercialism of the Hash, nobody who knew Magic has ever doubted the sincerity of the motivation behind his publications, his generosity or his hash-hospitality. He always had time for people, and became a Hash guru who encouraged Cairns, Cyprus and Phuket (and probably others) to make InterHash bids. Magic also encouraged Milan to incorporate the Bordighera Hash. For all of this and more, Magic was awarded a PhhhD by a grateful Pattaya Dirt Road H3. Yet Magic did have a life outside of Hashing. He was an accomplished big-game fisherman, trekked the Himalayas and Andes, and continued his love of music. Above all Magic was a gentleman, who cared about his mum in the UK and his Hashing sister, Michelle ‘Mango’ Wilson. He arranged for Michelle to be named Mango on one of her visits to the Kingdom. Unfortunately, on 15 January 1998, while enjoying one his favourite Bangkok restaurants, Tim fell ill and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage from which not even Magic could recover. Tim was pronounced dead on 23rd January 1998 at 53 years of age. His gravesite overlooks the Chao Phraya River in his beloved Bangkok and is unmistakably the tomb of a Hashman. Tim is survived by his mother, Noreen and sister, Mango. His Hashing contributions are to be recognised by the Hash Heritage Foundation‘s permanent display of the Tim Hughes Library in the memorabilia Room of the Hash House. ‘He respected people and in return was respected by those he met. Magic’s demise was dreadfully premature for all who knew him and also for all of Hashdom for which he had boundless enthusiasm.’ Whorator Sources: InterHash ’98 Informer, extra thoughts and material from Whorator. |
Maid MarionDave ‘Maid Marion’ Parks started Hashing in 1982 in Hong Kong and his career has taken him to London, Istanbul, where he was RA, and Copenhagen. He now runs with Petaling H3 and was the Operations Manager at InterHash Chiang Mai 2006. His wife Plastered was also on the IH 2006 Committee.
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A Hare and Hounds paper chase was staged in Malacca in 1933 or 1934 and Horse and G, who were temporarily posted there, took part. This was possibly a one off event.
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During the long dictatorial rule of President Banda, Malawi maintained ties with South Africa and was the ‘warm heart of Africa’ according to its tourist literature. Lilongwe H3 began during this period (1985) followed by Blantyre H3 (September 1987). Blantyre is actually more a small town than a real city, which enables the pack easy access to the surrounding bush. Their website offers regular tours of the town's pit latrines and beer at 50 cents a bottle. Both Hashes are still going on Monday nights with small to medium size packs. There have been numerous joint runs, the first of which was probably at Monkey Bay on Lake Malawi in 1990. Great characters of the past include Eric 'No Balls' Tarleton, GM during the early nineties, Shaun ‘Tinkerbell’ Burgess, a local banker of Zimbabwe extract and Andy Crabb who once walked across the country. Thanks to Skippy for additional information
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The Malay Mail was founded in 1896 and was ‘the paper’ of pre war Malaya. It is still going today, covering mainly the Klang Valley under the motto ‘The Paper that Cares’. Its links to the pioneer days of Hashing are three fold:
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Malaya/MalaysiaBritain’s presence (we really mean interference) in Malaya began when the British East India Company leased the island of Penang in 1786. One thing led to another and by the 1930’s Malaya was part of an Empire on which the sun never set! Ex-pat Brits introduced their strange sports (hockey, badminton, cricket and soccer are extremely popular in modern Malaysia) and paper chase clubs emerged in Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Malacca and Ipoh. ‘G’ Gispert, ‘Horse’ Thompson, and ‘Torch’ Bennett had all run with one or another of these groups and once gathered in KL were joined by the likes of Cecil Lee, Eric Galvin and H.M. Doig to found what would become Mother Hash which clocked up just over 100 runs before WW2 intervened.
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The inaugural Malaysia Nash Hash was organised by Alex ‘The Bear’ Thomas as a way of raising funds for the KL InterHash bid in 1996. It generated a surprising amount of interest, both from at home and abroad, and eventually a thousand Hashers tuned up. There was even a contingent from InterHash rivals Cairns who were there to promote their own bid. Thanks to this initial success the Malaysia Nash Hash has become a bi-annual event.
1996 Petaling Jaya 1998 Pulau Langkawi 2000 Port Dickson 2002 Pengang 2004 Malacca 2006 Sandakan Sabah 2008 Sungai Petani Kedah |
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The Malayan Emergency started as a post-WW2 struggle against colonialism and evolved into an anti-communist guerrilla war that lasted from 1948 to 1966. The Emergency brought a large numbers of Commonwealth soldiers, sailors and airmen to Malaya and played an important role in introducing these military personnel to Hashing. Even War has a silver lining!
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The Malaysian Hash Council brings some (not always welcomed) coordination to Hashing in Malaysia. See the Malaysian Hash Council website at: malaysiahashcouncil.com The Council was formed in September 1995 with Alex ‘The Bear’ Thomas its first chairman. The MHC’s Charter was threefold:
(1) to promote Hashing in Malaysia; (2) to register Malaysian Hashes; and (3) to organise Nash Hash . |
Mail is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is dry, hot and isolated. The Bambko Sahelian H3 was founded in June 1989 by ‘Rambo’ Whitlock (ex Dakar) and Angela ‘Skyhook’ Flemister.
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Malibog means ‘horny’ in Tagalog and is therefore a reasonably common name on Philippine Hashes. The most famous ‘Malibogs’ are Rob and John Denny, the Malibog brothers, who for many years were co-owners of the Birds of Paradise (BOP) Bar in Angeles City. Their contribution to Philippine Hashing is immense and includes Rob’s role as Joint Master of InterHash Philippines 1990. While the Bird survived the closure of Clark Field, from which the USAF operated, it was finally driven out of business by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which not only destroyed the Region’s tourist trade but also buried the Bird of Paradise and most of the rest of Angeles City.
The Malibogs moved
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When injured just prior to the 2003 Stockholm Marathon, hash veteran John ‘Malibog’ Denny gave his race number to hash colleague, Nick ‘Blind Pew’ Bramble. Nick had not trained for a marathon but, as a member of the British Orienteering team, was quite a fit young man. He decided to tuck in with one of the front groups and finished in a very respectable 2 hours 33minutes. As Blind Pew was running under John’s name, this appeared to have broken the Swedish veteran’s national record! The boys of course confessed.
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Several hashers – indeed many hashers – have completed marathons, a few quite seriously, many far more relaxed, including the odd hasher who has made beer stops on the way round. (Mentioning no names Clever Dick). Indeed it is traditional in some kennels, such as the Gold Coast, to support the regional marathon on mass. The fastest marathon time from a regular Hasher must be the 2 hour 11 minute 36 recorded by Dancing Dan in the 1982 Boston Marathon. The second fastest might well be Nick ‘Blind Pew’ Bramble’s 2hours 33 in the Stockholm Marathon. A few kennels even stage marathons, most notably Christmas Island H3 who organise an annual event. Cairo H3 has occasionally staged marathons in the past and Bahrain H3 was once joint organisers of the annual marathon relay.
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A Hash weekend with pub-crawl staged in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. 2006 was the 17th edition.
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In a remarkable display of loyalty Marsbar Marwan reached 1000 runs with Balikpapan H3 on run 1136. On on the Marsbar! |
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A small group meet once a month under the title Nouakchott H3. Founder was Udo ‘Capt’n Sober’ Krippner.
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Diplomats, several with South Korean hashing experience, started a Hash on Mauritius in May 1988. Their emblem is, of course, a Dodo. Although only running every second Sunday they are a very active group and for their 400th anniversary staged a ‘round the island relay’. This took 22 hours (this shows how big Mauritius is, rather than how slow the Hashers were) and raised a considerable sum for charity. There have been Red Dress Runs, an expedition to Kilimanjaro and visits from UK Hashes to Mauritius. More recently a monthly Sunset Hash, with emphasises on the post run meal in a small restaurant has started up. |
Hasher son of Terry ‘Deep Throat’ Mechan. Defending himself in a fight with an uninvited drunken houseguest led to a murder charge and a long spell in jail in Bahrain.
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Mexico City H3 is the only established kennel and has been Hashing since October 1983 when founded by Steve 'Cohare' Case, Jim 'Peso' Gregory and Dave Lawler. MCH3 is now a 50-50 mixed kennel (meaning mixed male/female and mixed expat/local) with packs of thirty or more at each run.
Runs can be anywhere from city centre to surrounding
parks, which enables you to get to plac The only real segregation on the run comes at the end, the majority of the Mexicans tending to want to start dancing as soon as the run ends, the majority of the ex-pats being willing to at least wait until after the circle. They are also an extremely good hash for getting out of towns for weekends. Mexico City H3 also staged Inter America Hash in 2007. Over the years there have been several distinguished GM’s including Burnt Sox and Disneyland. The current state of other Hashes is uncertain but at one time or another there have been Hashes in Guadalajara, Merida Cabo San Lucas and probably several other places.
Hash Classics Below Mexico City Photos from 1999 weekend trips
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MicroIndoneisa, Federated States of A group of tiny Pacific Island, best known perhaps to the diving community who come here to swim in the graveyards of the Japanese Navy. The main hash is the Saipan H3. See Northern Mariana Islands ‘Mismanagement’ – the Hash committee. This ironic term is in fact not always appropriate, as some hashes are actually extremely well run even if we like to pretend otherwise.
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MicroIndoneisa, Federated States of A group of tiny Pacific Island, best known perhaps to the diving community who come here to swim in the graveyards of the Japanese Navy. The main hash is the Saipan H3. See Northern Mariana Islands ‘Mismanagement’ – the Hash committee. This ironic term is in fact not always appropriate, as some hashes are actually extremely well run even if we like to pretend otherwise.
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Alan ‘Termite’ Underwood started hashing in Taiwan in 1985. He then ran in his native Essex and, since 1988, has been a core member of the Stockholm hash with spells as GM, RA and long term Hare Raiser. His wife Brit-Marie 'Marmite', is also a long term member of the Stockholm Hash Scene and there is also a 'Unclemite'. In 2007 Termite founded the Stockholm Bash and acquired the name 'The Chainless Wonder'. Termite also claims to have been propositioned by the Queen Mother when he was about 12 years of age and standing in a Boy Scout Guard of Honour. Her words to him were, apparently, ‘Why, you’re a big boy aren't you!' New
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Moldova Updated and new photos Chisinau H3 used to met every other Sunday at the water tower (you will know where that is if you live in Chisinau). Founders were Bruce ‘The Flasher’ Woolman, Elin ‘Felicity Shagwell’ Schilling and Paddy ‘Irish Band’ Kavanagh and they were a layback group with more walkers than runners. At their peak they were getting packs of 30 plus, with some good runs in the countryside. On one famous incident two hares were chased by a large and irate farmer who was convinced that the mysterious white powder was being put down to poison his cows. As the number of ex-pats ion town feel the pack shrunk and the kennel eventually folded. In September 2009 'Big County' and 'Teapot ' (with support from 'Shakesprick' and 'Nippy Knickers' , who missed the inaugural run after helping with the groundwork) got the kennel back up and running with the first hash of the New Chisinau H3. There were 20 runners, plus kids, and their ambition was to meet regularly every second week. Judging by the hash trash they seem to have got the idea of it all! Once back in the circle, where the RA managed to make small children cry (most unusual of course), there were various returning Hashers (Magic Balls and Bottle), a couple of new runners and of course a virgin or two . As ever, Big Country managed to flummox most of the returning Hashers with his wide repertoire of Hash songs, but they got the hang of it in the end. There are however concerns that numbers are not large enough to keep the hash going and there was an early conflict between families, who wanted the singing censored, and people who felt that this was a hash and that while children were welcome, the circle could not be tailored to them. After a few runs Chisinau experimented with a Sunday date to see if that attracted more people.
The last run before Christmas 2009 including the water tower meeting point and GM Big Country opening the champagne at the last check!
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Ulan Bator H3 was founded in 1994 and is a lively group that seems to be thriving at the moment. The countryside around the Mongolian capital is excellent for running and there is little alternative entertainment. Apart from the embassies and few businesses numbers are swollen by a small army of volunteers. This mixed group meet at the Southern Tower of the Bayangol Hotel and travel by bus to the venue. This forms a perfect singing environment and their theme song is an obscene version of ‘Yellow Submarine’ which starts ‘In the Land of Chinggis Khan’. Celebrations at their 300th run in July 2006 got a little wild, and there were even complaints against individuals lodged at embassies! If joining them be prepared for ‘adult’ attitudes and also be warned, its gets really cold
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MoroccoRabat H3 has been meeting on Saturdays since 1986. They attract a good size pack, and over the years have run in dunes, beach and mountains.
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Every Hash is descended from the first Hash in the world, known consequently and affectionately as ‘Mother Hash’. Mother can trace its origins to a handful of Hares and Hounds events that took place in Malaya during the 1930s. (See Malaysia above and the following paragraphs)
1930s Frederick ‘Horse’ Thomson, Cecil H. Lee, Frederick H ‘Torch’ Bennett and A S ‘G’ Gispert are generally accepted as founders of Mother Hash. These British expatriates had organized or participated in several earlier paper chases around the country so when, in 1938, they found themselves stationed in KL it seemed inevitable that somebody would suggest putting on a run. The idea was almost certainly discussed over lunch at ‘The Selangor Club’, although whether it was Gispert’s idea, or more likely a group decision, is debatable. The first run took place sometime in September 1938 and shortly afterwards it was agreed to make the runs a weekly event. They were soon attracting packs of 10-15, occasionally rising to 20, with Morris Edgar, Eric Galvin, Arthur Westrup, H.M. Doig, John Barrett and M.C. Hay amongst the runners. ‘Horse’ Thompson’ was away on leave for the first run, but on his return is credited with bringing a little organisation to the group, including the opening of a bank account. The Registrar of Societies required all gatherings to be legally registered, so the name was probably thought up very early on to satisfy this requirement. It was either ‘G’, or more likely ‘G’ and Cecil Lee, who came up with idea of the name, ‘Hash House Harriers’. (See Hash, name) The Ampang and Maxwell Road districts were the most common venues for the early runs, but several runners had cars, so the Hash soon branched out with A to B runs. The Malay drivers would be sent off to the finish point with supplies of cold beer and the result was that the Hashers started to stay much long at the ‘on in’. The first few drinks after a hot run were usually Tiger beer, mixed with ginger beer to make a shandy and this required the purchase of enamel mugs. However there was nothing in the way of singing, a circle, or other rituals more common on contemporary Hashes. Bennett as On-Sec and Lee and Thompson as Joint-Masters, led the Hash through its first two years during which the numbers grew slowly, with Frank Woodward, Philip Wickens, Lew Davidson and E.A. Ross joining the list of regular runners. The men only policy was debated, earlier paper chases else where in Malaysia had tended to be mixed, and Bennett suggested women were invited to one run but it rained and none turned up.
1940s At first the Hash had been very much for those not sporty enough to play the established games of cricket or rugby, but that changed over time with the pack growing in numbers and adding some good runners, notably John Wyatt-Smith. Indeed in the 1940’s the Hash might even have entered a team in a competitive race against the local Indian Athletic Club. A small group was also extending the evenings to include a trip to the ‘girlie bars’ in the Batu Road district. The Malay Mail played an important role in the Hash in these days, providing the paper to lay the trial and publicising the meeting place each week. With the growth of pre-War political tensions the Hash moved to Friday, as the Selangor Volunteers had reserved Mondays for drilling. In 1941 Hay and Bennett became Joint Masters. The On-Sec is unrecorded for that year, and it is possible Bennett was doing both jobs. It should be noted that Gispert never held an official position on Mother Hash. New runners included Rupert Mackie, with occasional visits from his brother Gus, and Don Kennedy, who would play an important role in Hashing after the war. The Hash celebrated its 100th run on 15 August 1941, with Hay and Ross as hares. On December 7th the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour and landed invasion forces in northern Malaya and Thailand on the same day. Run number 117 took place four days later and was to be the last Hash for five years.
Post war – 1940s to1950s It was nearly 12 months after the war before the survivors reassembled and 'Torch' Bennett lodged his legendary war damage claim for lost Hash mugs and a tin bath. It is Bennett and Philip Wickens who are generally credited with re-starting the Hash and a trot around the racecourse in August 1946 was classified as Run Number 1. The Malayan economy was in a mess and it was some time before cars started to reappear, allowing the Hash to once again wander further a field. Many of the old faces had returned and the new committee had a familiar look to it, with Bennett resuming his role as On-Sec and Lee and Galvin acting as Joint Masters. On June 16 1948, MRLA guerrillas killed three British rubber plantation workers and a State of Emergency was declared in the country. The Hash again had to be registered and was known simply as the ‘Hash House Harriers’. Kula Lumpur was not part of the title. The Hash struggled through this period, battling against the curfew and official disapproval and some runs saw the pack reduced to single figures. Wyatt-Smith was often hare during this period, as his work for the forestry commission gave him knowledge of which areas were safe to run. However, it is possible that the Emergency provided a few new members from the troops stationed in the city, and it set the scene for the legendary Cheras Bandit Incident. See Cheras Bandit Incident.
1950s The old hands slowly started to fade away during the fifties. Horse Thomson was the last original member to hold a position on the committee when he was Joint Master in 1951. Wickens in 1954 and Davidson in 1956 were probably the last of the pre war Hashers to do so. By 1958 the pre-war runners were probably down to Lew-Davidson, Wyatt Smith and Lee. New names were arriving, some of whom, most notably Bill Panton, would themselves go on to become Hashers legends. Numbers however once again started to drop to dangerous levels until D.E. Scourse took over as On-Sec and launched a successful recruitment drive. C.R/ Verity appears regularly on the committee during this period.
1960s The Hash started to pick up again and new members included John Duncan, now Mother’s longest continuous member. Ian Cummings leaves an account of hashing during this period. A typical run would be from A to A with dead hares. A limited number of beers and ginger beers would be available after the run, as would cigarettes. When the drinks were finished everybody went went home and there were no down downs, circles or ceremony, except possibly if an old hand was leaving for good. In 1962 Ian Cummings took Hashing to Singapore, after which Mother Hashers played an increasingly important role as Hash missionaries. When KL celebrated their 1000th post war run on 12 March 1966 there were probably ten Hashes scattered around the world. It was at the 1,000th run that it was agreed to make the pre-war runs official, so that run 1000 actually became run 1117. The old barriers between ex-pats and locals were breaking down and new Hashers included KC Chai and Guiness Khoo, both of whom joined in 1968 and were still running in the next century. However Mother Hash remained firmly a male preserve.
1970s Eddie Fong and KC Chai became the first Malaysians to serve on the committee and 1972 saw an important evolutionary change when the role of On-Cash was separated from that of On-Sec. The missionary work continued, ex-KL men starting up some of the world’s finest Hashes, including Jakarta, Durban, Washington and Port Moresby. The 1,500th anniversary run in 1974 attracted 300 runners and inspired the first official InterHash four years later, in Hong Kong. Run number 1272 was also memorable, with the entire pack getting lost and staying out all night. See Mother Hash Run 1272
1980s The decade opened with KL hosting the world’s second InterHash and 1,242 runners gathered for the occasion. B. Colombus was one of the most noted officials of the eighties, acting as On-Cash from 1986 to 1994.
1990s The position of On-Cash once again found a long serving official in E. ‘Ted’ Quirk, while Charlie ‘Dynamite’ Chandran became one of the kennel’s most distinguished On-Sec’s. In 1998, KL became the first kennel to stage the InterHash twice, with a record 5,580 Hashers turning up to pay their respects to Mother Hash in its Diamond Jubilee Year. Several senior Hashers took advantage of InterHash to unveil their plans for a Hash Foundation, which would work to build a replica of the Selangor Club as a Hash museum. See Hash Heritage Foundation. Mother Hash in the new centuryMother Hash continues to run on Monday nights, perhaps the main issue being traffic and an increasing difficulty in locating good running territory within a reasonable travelling time. There are five specially gazetted runs each year; the AGM run in February, Chinese New Year Run, Can-Am Run, Merdeka (Independence) Day Run, and Deepavali Day Run. In addition there are always numerous other semi-official special runs. A relatively new custom is to give engraved pewter mugs to members who have ‘completed five years continuous membership in good financial standing’. In 2001, Mother Hash passed 3000 runs, with Nick Mason organising a successful celebration.Sources: Original research by John Duncan; Mother Hash website; Hash Heritage Foundation website; S. Lloyd’s Hare of the Dog.
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Mother Hash, Run 1272Run 1272 became a Hash legend when virtually the entire pack became lost and stayed out all night. The venue was a jungle area between Uluklang Ridge and the reservoir. First the hares got lost and, as they wandered disoriented, the first of the pack caught up with them. By 7.15 pm it was dark and some 23 hashers plus hares were now completely disorientated. They heard voices ahead, but instead of rescuers it turned out to be another 15 lost hashers. Between them the emergency equipment stretched to one small torch. Gilberston, Dominey and a dog tried to get home by swimming across the reservoir. They returned to the pack a considerable time later on a raft they had found (or possibly built!). When the moon brought a little light at around 11.30 pm the pack tried to walk out, but the attempt was abandoned. The handful of runners who had reached the beer wagon were now contacting worried - and in some cases not particularly worried - wives. Around 6.15 am it was light enough to get orientated and the first of the pack reached the RV just over an hour later. The main pack followed within half an hour but it was noon before a last lone runner came jogging out of the forest from the opposite direction.
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Mountain Rescue Updated During the late sixties and early seventies military personal became the great Hash Evangelists, spreading the event we love around the world. This short-lived period produced two legendary figures, Richard ‘Mountain Rescue’ McAllister and Ray ‘The Brig’ Thornton. ‘Mountain Rescue’ was introduced to hashing in Brunei in 1964, after which his CV includes founding the extremely influential Kluang Hash, staging the first hash on British soil (Longmoor H3) and returning hashing to mainland Europe with the founding of Lubbecke H3. Thirty years later Mountain Rescue is still traveling the world and when at home in Hampshire hashes with North Hants and Deepcut H3. |
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Since the end of the Civil War, Mozambique has emerged as the great hope of Africa and expatriates have been flooding in, particularly across the border from South Africa. There are still a few problems, including crime in the big cities and minefields if you wander into the bush, but the hundreds of miles of beaches offer safe and spectacular Hashing and the MM beer is excellent. Maputo H3 was founded in 1987 by Phil ‘Rear View’ Gray (ex Bangkok). They are a mixed kennel that regularly attracts packs of around 50. They meet every Saturday at the Aeroclube de Mozamabique and also on Wednesdays, although Maputo streets are not really safe enough for night time running, so this is only for drinks. They are a good Hash for getting away from town at weekends and their train ride across Africa leading up to 2005 InterHash was a brilliant experience that established Maputo as one of the continent’s top kennels. They went on to successfully host African InterHash in 2007. The success of hashing in the capital has led to the founding of Nampula H3 (’06) and Matola H3 (’03). The two kennels are very different. Matola is a monthly bush run, which can expect a core of Maputo hashers to turn up and take the pack to 40 or more. Nampula is in the hills and has to rely on a few local based hashers and therefore struggles along with a pack that is often in single figures.
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Harun Mr. Majestic Demirtas is one of a small handful of Ankara hashers with over 600 plus runs to their credit. He has been a long term committee member and a particularly distinguished Hash Cash. He is always one of the first to welcome new runners, usually with the line ‘I am Mr. Majestic, the most handsome man in Turkey!’
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MTM is a Canadian who started hashing in Berne in 1992 and made her first overseas trip to Italy in 1996. Her career has enabled her to travel and hash regularly and she is in the top three rankings of ‘Where have you hashed’ with 66 countries to her credit. MTM has also helped to re-establish kennels in Sofia and Dushanbe. She is noted for her dislike of beer.
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Bart 'Muki' Duijvelaar is that rare breed - a Dutch hasher. He was introduced to the hash in Lima in 2000 when he was there hunting for a wife. Having successfully snared the delightful 'Magic Mushroom' he continued to run with Lima until 2006, including a spell as RA. His work as a engineer brought him to Stockholm where he had an immediate impact on the local hash scene. By 2006 he was RA of the Underground Hash and GM of the Absolute. |
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hashing. He makes regular end of year guest appearances at the bars and
restaurants on Mooloolaba Beach at Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, but
can’t be convinced to join the Sunshine Coast Hash Christmas revelries. John became a central figure on
the Stockholm Hash. John was also, briefly, holder of the
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kennel in October 2000. They were founded by a small core of experienced
hashers and their first run in the Bouskura Forest attracted 70 runners.
Although runs are usually around ‘Casa’ as they call it, there are one
or two weekend trips a year and an annual get together with Rabat. The
first run of each month is followed with music and barbeque.
