Gets, Hale
will be
welcomed
distance
runners
for
Oregon
By ART BUSHNELL
Of the Emerald
Paul Geis had had a long week
end.
After running to a first place tie
in the Saturday night Bakersfield
Track Classic three-mile, he’d
stayed up all night to get to San
Francisco and run in the Sunday
Bay-to-Breakers distance race.
There he ran an unofficial sixth
in the 7.8-mile race through the
hilly streets of the Bay City.
Now he was dog tired. But his
year of exile as a non-competing
transfer student was coming to
an end and he already began
looking forward to the fall cross
country season in earnest.
“We’re going to have the best
cross country team in the nation.
No other team will match us,”
said Geis.
After the collapse of Duck
distance fortunes in the Pac-8
meet, Geis’ statement may come
as a bit of a surprise. But the
Texas native makes a good case
for his boast.
First he points to Steve
Prefontaine, the Duck distance
ace, who red-shirted in cross
country last season and will be
back for another season of
eligibility in the fall.
“Pre’ll have no worries. He’ll
be in top shape, coming off a
strong European tour.”
Then there’s Tom Hale,
Oregon’s other ineligible transfer
student.
Tom has run the nation’s fifth
best six-mile, 27:57.6. The win
ning Pac-8 time was 28:23.6. And
Tom finished an official seventh
in the San Francisco mini
marathon Sunday.
The race was won by Hale’s
Oregon Track Club teammate
Ken Moore in 37:15. Jon An
derson in ninth, Russ Pate 17th,
Bob Gray 18th and Jerry Tighe
30th rounded out the finishes for
the OTC team winners of the
coast race.
But the OTC victory would
have been even more impressive
if the officials had counted Geis’
finish.
“I wasn’t officially entered.
After driving all night and getting
an hour and a half of sleep, I got
up early to try and get officially
into the San Francisco race. But
they wouldn’t let me enter at the
start of the race, so I ran without
a number and placed sixth—the
second American to cross the
finish line.”
Geis’ week-end performance is
even more impressive when he
throws in the clincher—he’d had
surgery only eleven days before
the Bakersfield race—where he
ran his lifetime best by more than
six seconds (13:18.8).
I’d missed six days of training
because of the surgery and still
got a new personal best. Because
of the circumstances, I know I’m
a lot better than the time in
dicates.”
There’s also another cir
cumstance. Geis let up at the end
so that he could cross the finish
line in a pre-arranged tie with his
friend Jim Johnson of Club
Northwest. The two had both
wanted fast times, so they took
turns leading the race each lap.
At the finish, Geis felt he had a lot
left.
‘‘I could have run a sub-13.14 if
I hadn’t agreed to tie. It was a
stupid move, but I couldn’t go
back on my word.”
Now both Hale and Geis are
looking forward to finally being
able to compete for Oregon.
Hale didn’t know his time for
the Bay race—he said it was a
little confusing with 4000 runners
on the course.
And he would’ve liked to have
placed higher.
But for right now he’s looking
forward to competing for the
Ducks.
“This year’s been okay. Cross
country wasn’t too bad. During
the indoor season I got to run as
much as anybody. It’s just been
the last couple of months it hasn’t
been too fun not competing.
“I would have liked to be
able to run in the Pac-8, the
NCAA and the UCLA dual. Now
I’m going to run the AAU six-mile
and then get ready for cross
country.”
The six-mile will be Hale’s
event in college. He wants to run
it in conference and national
meets next year. In the mean
time, he’ll prepare with the fall
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He thinks competition should
be pretty good with Washington
State—the defending Pac-8 cross
country champs who showed up
the Ducks in the distances this
weekend.
“I was in Bakersfield after
seeing the steeple. All I could do
was listen to the results on the
radio or read them in the paper.
It’s not too much fun just
listening. I want to compete. Next
year I’ll be there.”
Geis says Hale is “a good hill
runner and the NCAAs for cross
country will be on a hilly course
in Washington next year.”
In describing this fall’s com
petition, Geis gets a little fired up
thinking about running against
Washington State.
He thinks WSU’s corps of
foreign runners will all be
peaking in the fall for the Com
monwealth Games. And he thinks
the Ducks will be ready for them.
“A lot of people are already
talking about that rivalry. John
Ngeno and Dan Murphy may be
good, but Pre is a sure winner.
We’ll have more depth than they,
with me, Hale, Mike Long, Bob
Grubbs, Gary Barger and Randy
James. I don’t see how a
team could hope to beat us.”
Even so, it’s the three-mile that
Geis will be concentrating on.
“When Ngeno ran in the
quadrangular meet here, WSU
assistant coach John Chaplin
,came over to a group of Oregon
runners and said Ngeno would
take care of me next year. That
just fires me up even more.”
You can tell Geis and Hale are
looking forward to the fall—Mid
to next spring when they’ll be
able to compete in the Pac-8 and
NCAA instead of just read about
them.
TOM HALE
Photo by James Link
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