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...Eastern swimming championships at Princeton, N.J., Olympic champion Joe Verdeur of Philadelphia's La Salle College showed he was still the best in his business by winning the 200-yard breaststroke and 300-yard individual medley for the third year...
...team performance, which gave Yale a total of 75 points in the meet, 48 more than second-place Rutgers and 68 more than seventh-place Harvard was matched only by the brilliant swimming of Joe Verdour of LaSalle. Verdeur won the 300-yard individual relay for his third straight year and set a new intercollegiate record by speeding the distance in 3:25.2, 70 feet in front of Yale's McMullen...
...Verdeur's record-breaking conquest Saturday overshadowed the upset victories registered by Dartmouth's Jock McIntyre in winning the 300-yard freestyle and Don DeForrest, Pennsylvania captain, in taking the 440-yard freestyle...
...Verdeur of Lasalle triumphed easily in the 200-yard breaststroke for the third time running, registering a time...
...gets most attention from the U.S. at the Olympics. With Japan on the sidelines (Japan and Germany were not invited), the U.S. has the pool almost to itself-except for France's Alex Jany in the 100-& 400-meter freestyle. The best U.S. bet: husky Breast-Stroker Joe Verdeur, who has been breaking his own world records...