Helen Sobel Smith

Helen Elizabeth Sobel Smith (née Martin; May 22, 1909 – September 11, 1969) was an American bridge player.

She only knew only how to play pinochle and Casino until another chorus girl taught her bridge:[2] she took to the game like a duck to water.

After a brief marriage to a Jack White that ended in 1930, she married bridge player Alexander M. Sobel (1901–1972), a former vaudeville performer who found better work in the Depression as a tournament director.

That year Young became the first woman to achieve the rank of ACBL Life Master; Sobel became the second in 1941.

"[9] Sobel Smith was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 1995, when the League established that honor by adding eight names to a list of nine whom The Bridge World had recognized in the 1960s.

"[9] Once Helen Sobel wearied of a female kibitzer who was all but sitting in partner Goren's lap.