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...Burwell ("Bumpy") Jones's 15O-yd. individual medley (backstroke, breast stroke, free style) intercollegiate record performance. The versatile Michigan freshman swam the medley in 1:29.8, one second faster than the record held by Joe Verdeur, the U.S.'s 1948 Olympic breaststroke winner...
...stroke, Princeton's lanky (6 ft. 4 in., 165 lbs.) Bob Brawner was strangely nervous as he stepped up to the edge of the Ohio State pool at Columbus one night last week. Only the week before, he had licked La Salle's stocky Olympic champion, Joe Verdeur. But this time 20-year-old Bob Brawner was up against the champ again in the national collegiate championships, where Joe Verdeur had taken the title two years running...
...slice of a second later at the gun, Brawner found himself a yard behind right at the outset. After the first 100 yds., he began to pull up. Verdeur more than held his own on the turns at the end of the 25-yd. pool, but Brawner gained steadily on the straightaway. With his longer reach and the airfoam floating ride he gets, he was using only three strokes to the champion's five...
...then the two were out in front all alone, Brawner making up the gap in inch-long takes. Thirty yards from the finish, Brawner caught his rival; as they hit the final turn Brawner had a finger-length edge. Verdeur had nothing left to match his rival's closing drive, lost by four feet. The time was 2:14.3-four-tenths of a second under the official world's record, but not close to Brawner's best time (2:13.1) of the year...
...swimming competition, Yale freshman John Marshall won the 220-yard freestyle in the world's record time of 2:05.5 and Princeton's Bob Brawner took the 220-yard breaststroke in 2:29.3, an American record. In the same race, Joe Verdeur, of LaSalle, set a world 200-meter mark...