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Modern bridge historians (e.g., David Parlett, A History of Card Games ) treat it as an apocryphal or exaggerated story, but one that influenced early 20th-century house rules.

Unlike later cheating cases (e.g., the 1965 Reese–Schapiro scandal), the Hurley–Purley case was never formally adjudicated by a national authority, but was widely discussed in The Field and The Whist Player magazines. hurleypurley foursome

The foursome gained notoriety due to an alleged involving: Modern bridge historians (e

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The scandal broke when the doctors , breaking the foot-signal geography. Suspicions were confirmed when the Hurley–Purley pair’s success rate dropped from ~75% to below 30% in the second half of the session. A letter to The Field (March 12, 1909) described the incident as: