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...Verdeur churned himself half out of the water at every stroke. His nearest pur suer in the N.C.A.A. 200-yard breaststroke finals was yards behind. After he had reached the finish in Seattle's University of Washington pool, Joe's winning time was announced as 2:16.8. It was al most three seconds better than the official world record - but four-tenths worse than Joe's performance of the previous week...
...freshman at Philadelphia's little La Salle College. Since La Salle has no pool, he does his swimming at the Turners' Club, a gymnasium in Philadelphia's German section. To help himself through La Salle (he wants to be a dentist) Verdeur stokes the furnace at the gym. The Turners' pool is an antiquated 18-by-20-yard tub with no gutters; when Joe gets to thrashing around in it, the sidewash kicks up into ocean-sized waves...
Outstanding feature of the meet was a new world's record, clocked on 21-year-old Joe Verdeur of Lasalle College. The Philadelphia Freshman made the 200-yard breast stroke...
With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...