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The Best in Family Reading Can Be Found Daily in Your Muscatine Journal
The Muscatine Journal features a bridge column by B. Jay Beck recounting a 1954 national match in Washington where Sam Fry Jr. and Harry Fishbein navigated a triumph through a deft heart finesse and misdirection. The article notes Fry’s strategic play, including a clever slam in clubs and a sequence of precise discards and ruffs to secure twelve tricks. It highlights the players, event location, and the dramatic bidding and play that led to the celebrated win.
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Muscatine
Sam Fry, Jr
Harry Fishbein
Washington, D.C
Fry
Stark
Declarer
Sam Fry
East
South
West
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