Run Awards


The Sado-Masochism Award
There were two sets of candidates for this award: Squelcher & Bouncer for their Badgers Holt run which involved a liberal helping of gorse and a huge hill in a two
pronged attack on the legs and lungs, and Donkey & Denim for their Kit Hill gorse &
bramble run on 22 November. In the end it was no contest - the sheer sustained torture of the Kit Hill run won out in the end. The hounds suffered and the hares enjoyed watching, so the S & M award goes to Donkey & Denim.

The Outstanding Contribution to Creative Hashing Award
There was only one real contender in this category, as normally the only time the average Drake hasher is creative is when they’re trying to get out of laying a run! We’ve run in certain places many times, so it takes a real talent to do something new in one of these locations. To get the hash lost at Burrator Reservoir is an achievement in itself, but to get them lost within the boundary of the reservoir demonstrates real genious. Step forward Chucky, your run on 1 November was a classic!

The Outstanding Value in Hashing Award
A closely contested category: We had runs from Wimpers at Holbeton Point that lasted 1 hour 10 minutes, IAT above Clearbrook at 1 hour 10 minutes, and Squawk, Donkey & Olive at Cremyll at 1 hour 11 minutes. But in the end, for sheer value for money, how can you beat a run which had two start points, a secret beer stop so secret no one could find it and two on downs. This year’s Outstanding Value in Hashing Award therefore goes to Bouncer & Squelcher for their Bedford Bridge / Lopwell Dam run on 22 March 1999.

Special Awards


The Derriford Hospital Injury of the Year Award
Previously this category was much more closely contested, with Not Norman and HT2 attending out patients for their injuries on the same night. Subsequently, things have been much quieter - however, IAT would have won it outright if that wire had not stopped him falling down that mine shaft. This year, however, there is only one serious contender for the award: After completing Rudolph’s run at Lopwell Dam on 9 August she ended up in Derriford’s out patients department with displaced kneecaps. She will be returning to hashing in the spring, when she hopes that like the birds, her kneecaps will be migrating north again. And so this year’s Derriford Hospital Injury Award of the Year goes to Miss Whiplash.

The Panzer Tank Award 1999
This award goes the person who has demonstrated the most innovative approach to tact and diplomacy over the year. To get things done even on Drake hash you need someone who is persuasive and who will seize opportunities. This person takes this one stage further by persuading you that you really would like to lay a trail in a month’s time, whilst seizing you by the throat or any other vulnerable part of your anatomy. She personifies the spirit of this award because, like a panzer tank, she batters down your defences and rolls right over you, leaving you crushed and broken in her wake. However, it has been a long time since the hare list has been in such a healthy position and so she deserves this award for a job well done. The Panzer Tank Award 1999 goes to Dishy.

The Percy Vearance Award 1999
It was many years ago that dear old Percy instigated this award for loyalty to the hash.
The winner is someone who has turned out on a Monday night come rain or shine for
many years now. Although never a front runner, she has stuck with the hash even when it was much faster than it is now. It is the middle and back of the pack runners like her who are the backbone of the hash and it is our aim to encourage as many of these people to join and stay with the club. This award is in recognition of her loyalty over the years and is presented in the hope that she will continue to run with Drake for many years to come. The Percy Vearance Award 1999 goes to Mudflaps.

Loony of the Year Award
This was an extremely hotly contested award, in fact, everyone in the room was in contention for it. The judges had an extremely hard task picking just one loony from such a superb collection, but in the end it was for a single act of outstanding looniness for which the award was given. Imagine it’s three o’clock in the morning on New Year’s Eve and you’re tucked up snug and warm in bed. Now, what’s the looniest thing you could do? Get out of bed, go outdoors into the cold, wet and dark and run 76 miles across Dartmoor just to get back to where you first started from. No one in their right mind would do such a thing, and so Loony of the Year award goes to Zippy. Those members of the hash who assisted him receive the title of ‘Assistant Loony’, in the hope that in due course they too may aspire to full looniness.

Lifetime Achievement Award
This special award has been created for those who have made the most outstanding
contribution to Drake hash over the years. The winner is someone who has become a
legend in hash circles and whose name is spoken with awe (Awe it’s him). He has
single-handedly invented an alternative to conventional navigation and has taken every opportunity to promote it. His local knowledge is peerless, in fact, he is the one person who knows the area like the back of his hand, whilst staring at his palm. He is responsible for devising the longest short cuts ever created, and has achieved remarkable success in persuading other hashers to join him on them. His experience is
unrivalled: he has been lost at virtually every location where Drake has run. On one
memorable occasion in the Teign Valley woods, he told the hare that the trail did not
go where it had been laid and headed off in the opposite direction. Several hours later
he turned up at the pub after accosting a farmer in his home and forcing him to give him a lift to the pub. His powers of persuasion verge on the hypnotic. On another occasion he was so worried for the hare’s safety in the dark whilst he was being rescued that he was forced to hold the hare’s hand.

The attention to detail and the effort that this man puts into his trails reflects his
perfectionism. It is we, the all too fallable hounds, who are to blame if a trail does not
go entirely to plan, by not following every single blob of sawdust that has been laid. And it is only for our own good that he is forced to shout at us. His trail laying skills are at such a high level that they are completely beyond the comprehension of the average hasher, which accounts for the failure of the hounds to locate any of the sawdust that he had so cunningly hidden behind stones in one of his early Drake runs at Shaugh Bridge.

Finally, he is a real character and has contributed tremendously to the spirit of Drake
Hash House Harriers since its inception. He is a real hasher and will always be so.
I am proud to announce that the winner of The Lifetime Achievement Award (which confers upon the recipient Life Membership of Drake H3) goes to IAT.

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