SPORTS
Hua Hin Hash House Harriers
The commencement of the year of the pig coincided with Hua Hin Hash House Harriers Chinese New Year run No 90 on 17 February 2007.
The run and walk combined, took place at a previously well used area approximately 3 kilometres along the Chom Pol Road {Route 1010} just to the north of Hua Hin airport.
43 Hashers turned out for this festive run hared by Domestic Violence, Boring English Gent and Lady Rodney Ferguson all of whom arrived in Hua Hin the previous evening from Shanghai . Preparations for the run were obviously last minute with the hares deciding to run live 15 minutes ahead of the pack hoping they wouldn't be caught before getting back to base.
The trail, along fairly flat unchallenging terrain led through farmland, woods and by reservoirs, took the fast boys around 45 minutes with the walkers coming home around the hour mark. First home was Hollowlegs looking the worse for wear reportedly having sunk the best part of two bottles of gin the previous evening with friends. Not surprisingly he opted initially for water rather than taking his usual dive into the beer cooler for the iced Leo.
The remaining runners and walkers trailed in over the following 15 minutes with the cooler seeing plenty of action. Fortunately, 69 Forever standing in for Ballbanger on active service in the US , anticipated the numbers and brought in extra supplies. A further supplement of 3 boxes of Leo to the cooler was provided by the hares nearly all of which was comsumed by the end of the evening.
The GM, Slackbladder called the circle for the usual nonsense but not before having to placate the nearby locals with false promises of no unruly behaviour and only ‘Nid Noi' consumption of alcohol. As is the custom at Chinese New Year, many of the hashers dressed appropriately, recited humorous Confucian sayings, finishing off with a rendering of Slow Boat To China.
Prior to that, the usual ‘down downs' were administered, first of all to the 3 ethnic Chinese in the gathering including Domestic Violence and Iron Lady. Those born in the year of the pig were also called into the circle. They included Old Macdonald who has memories as a lad of the enemy bombing his Grannies outside closset. Is he really so old since he can still canter at more than a snails pace and reputedly has active grey matter according to his Scrabble opponents.
As the beer cooler gradually emptied, the sun set and the locals bedded down their beasts for the night, Pancho the pervert unexpectedly set off a string of Chinese fire crackers, leaving some of the unsuspecting hashers in need of a change of underwear.
The majority of the hashers then moved to the ‘On On', a local restaurant where the hares generously provided Baht laced red laisee packets a Chinese tradition, given to each of the young members and finally to all the ladies present.
The restaurant, which proved to be good value for money, supplied north east Thai food and a range of cold beer, is pronounced Sab-E-Lee {excellence}. It is situated at the side of the Cha Am bound carriageway between the 219 and 220 km marker posts. No doubt the Hua Hin hash will use the restaurant again as a future venue when running in the area.
On On - 69 Forever.
CHA AM HASH
No.42 hared by Dave the Rave, Old MacDonald and Frank, Held on Saturday 24th February 2007 at approx 4.30 pm.
Hash number 42 was held on the road towards Springfield Golf Course and Spa on the right hand side very near the dam and in the shadow of some wooded conical hills. Hare Frank introduced the Hash with some interesting comments about the flora and fauna including the deadly wogga wogga snake and ran through the track markings laid by the hares for the misdirection of the Hashers. Of particular interest was the promise of passionflowers, red pond lilies and cashew nuts en route. Frank asked the Hashers to disregard the prominent notice displayed at the turn-off towards the Hash, representing tigers and elephants and had a few words of advice on dealing with wild beasts en route! John Corby was nominated Hash Flash and promptly took a photo of all the Hashers present. This promises to be a regular feature and will provide posterity with gruesome (in most cases) evidence of Cha Am Hashes.
The Hashers set off on a trail skirting a large pond and leading to scrub land and a number of false trails, which had the Hashers, foxed for a time. In fact, it also appeared to have the Hares foxed. Confusion was however swiftly dispelled and we followed a trail along a piece of land newly fenced, after which we continued through thorn bushes and bamboo, onto rising ground, leading over a hillside, with many prominent rock boulders and some precipitous rock faces. The Hashers negotiated the rising ground with their usual panache and then descended on a steep track through more trees into open countryside and a wider trail, passing beautiful red bougainvilleas on the left hand side. The trail eventually led round a large pond decorated with red water lilies. The Hashers then soon reached the On In where cool refreshments awaited. The last walkers arrived one and a half hours after starting.
The GM called the circle, in the middle of which he had placed, rather ominously, a large block of ice. The GM was in his usual robust form, issuing Down Downs with gay abandon as follows: to Merry Can Can for colourful language at the end of the Hash (warned by the GM that, as a Belgian, she should mind her French!) GM Hollow Legs then placed Comes First on the ice block for having negotiated part of the route on a motorcycle, and at one stage it seemed that marital discord might result, or at least a degree of frigidity in a certain part of the anatomy, but this hopefully did not materialise. Old Macdonald had his appendages frozen for failing to remind the GM of a pressing matter at the start of the Hash for which increasing senility was no excuse whatsoever! Dave the Rave then related, as Steward for the day, anecdotal evidence of some of the GM's wilder eccentricities and then produced a large gin and tonic, which proved positively therapeutic to the GM. Most of us heard the glugs but not the usual belching encore (like the frogs' chorus) to which we are often treated. After this hilarity, the GM decided to hold a beer tasting and selected five or six elite Hashers to sample the different beers in a blind trial. This resulted in the expression of widely differing opinions leading to increasing incoherence, including the comment that the beer tasters used to be indecisive but were now just in two minds about it. The beer tasting was wholly inconclusive and spluttered to rather indeterminate climax amid a few murmurs of appreciation and a chorus of belches. As the beer tasting had gone on for some time (well forever actually) the light was now fading and the GM was soon to be seen in all his glory, silhouetted against a beautiful sunset in a most picturesque manner. There was just time to down the Guests and the Virgins and to thank the Hares for an excellent Hash, not forgetting a spectacular christening ceremony with flour and beer at which Frank was baptized as Cannon Balls (for obvious reasons), Di as Piste Again (in honour of her walking ski sticks) and Liz Worral as Bitch Walker (in honour of her lovely dog who always accompanies her on the Hash). In point of fact the dog proved to be the most well behaved member of the Hash, disproving the old maxim that one should not work with children and animals! The On On included excellent fare at the Chicken Coop, Cha Am, lubricated by first class refreshments and enhanced by excellent company. Cha Am Hash is fit and well!
Hua Hin Pool League
The new 8 Ball season got underway during March with both Cup and League matches taking place. The early standings are shown here although no individual tables are available at present.
The 0-ball season finished just after the deadline for last month's issue, but unfortunately, due to space considerations, we are unable to show the final standings here; however the winners and runners up of the two divisions were:
League A Winners Halex SugarCane, runners up Lucky Shot
League B Winners P & P, runners up London
The presentations for the 9-Ball league took place at U-Turn on 1 st March 2007.
The individual tournaments had not taken place at press time but the results of those will be included in the May issue.
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Hua Hin Darts
LEAGUE TABLE
Team P W D L PF-PA Points
Johnnie Walker Black 2 2 0 0 18-2 4
Johnnie Walker Red 2 2 0 0 16-4 4
CAT 2 2 0 0 15-5 4
Jungle Juice 2 2 0 0 14-6 4
Pink Flamingo 2 2 0 0 13-7 4
Good Friends B 2 1 0 1 11-9 2
Dick's Office 2 1 0 1 9-11 2
Good Friends A 2 0 1 1 11-9 1
Ecosse 2 0 1 1 9-11 1
Jaew Bar 2 0 1 1 9-11 1
Bamboo Shoots 2 0 1 1 7-13 1
Butterfly Rock 2 0 0 2 5-15 0
Bamboo Grove 2 0 0 2 4-16 0
Love Bar 2 0 0 2 1-19 0
Early days for the top 5, but some players have got off to a flying start:
Name Bar SGL Dbls Ton's Clss Cls>100 180s TOT Pts Win Win
Martin E 10 6 10 9 0 0 35
Tao JWB 10 4 10 7 0 1 32
Noi CAT 10 4 9 5 0 0 28
Dicky JWB 10 6 3 8 0 0 27
Doug JJ 10 6 3 8 0 0 27
Fixtures for April
Week 5 – 3rd April 2007
Good Friends A v Love Bar, Dicks Office v Bamboo Grove, Butterfly Rock v JW Black, CAT v Pink Flamingo, Jaew v Ecosse, JW Red v Jungle Juice, Bamboo Shoots v Good Friends B
Week 6 – 10th April 2007
JW Black v CAT, Bamboo Grove v Butterfly Rock, Good Friends A v Dicks Office, Jungle Juice v Bamboo Shoots, Ecosse v JW Red
Pink Flamingo v Jaew, Love Bar v Good Friends B
Songkran 13th – 15th April – Darts Tournament at Bamboo Grove
Contact OSMO for details
Week 7 – 17th April 2007
1st Round Cup
Draw to be made
Week 8 – 24th April 2007
CAT v Bamboo Grove, Jaew v JW Black, JW Red v Pink Flamingo, Bamboo Shoots v Ecosse, Good Friends B v Jungle Juice, Butterfly Rock v Good Friends A, Dicks Office v Love Bar
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