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LaSalle's Joe Verdeur cracked the official world's record in the 200-yard breaststroke and the American record in the 300-yard individual medley to win individual honors in Saturday's half of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming meet. As expected, Yale walked off with team honors in the invitation meet, held at the Indoor Athletic Building pool...
...Verdeur set both his records in the afternoon's time trials, plowing the waves in 2:16.1 in the breaststroke and in 3:22.8 in the medley. In the evening's finals, he won both events easily...
...yard medley relay: Won by LaSalle (Shaw, Verdeur, Lumsdun); second, Yale; third, Dartmouth; fourth, Army; fifth, Bowdoin. Winning time...
Allen Stack, Yale backstroker who set a new intercollegiate record last weekend, will be the co-star of the show along with Verdeur, while Don DeForrest, all-around ace from Penn in three events this winter, should furnish real competition for the topnotchers...
Larry Ward, surprise placer in the Yale meet, will carry Crimson colors in the breaststroke, as will Joe--Fox and Milt Buzby in the freestyle dashes. Only in the 300-yard individual medley, where Verdeur seems certain of holding his title, will there be no local entry...