The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-10
SEES CAME WITH
TEACHERS EYES
Blind Girl is Enthusiastic
Rooter for New York {,
Giants.
GETS ALL The GOOD POINTS
Daughter of Famous Author and
Composer Inherits Love of Sport
From Father-Is Like Ray
of Sunshine.

New York-Everybody was hum
ming or whistling "After the BALI 2s
years ago.
Charles X. Harris, author and com
poser of that popular song, was at that
time resident of Milwaukee and q
frequent visitor to Chicago. He was
an enthusiastic baseball fan.
The Harris home is now at ISL West
Eighty-sixth street, this city, and Miss
Mildred Harris, the nineteen-year-old
daughter of the author-composer, has
inherited a love of baseball from her
father and, despite her total blindness,
is able to 'see" the game and enjoy it
almost as keenly as If she had her
sight. For the last seven years she
has been a fan.
She sits in the grandstand wearing
smoked glasses and is always on hand
when the Giants are playing. She
jumps up and down and cheers the
players just like other excited specta-
tors. Behind her unseeing eyes is a
mind of extraordinary perception,
swift to grasp what is going on about
her. Some of the experts say she
than those who have all their senses.
Sees Through Fathers Eyes.
Miss Mildred's escort is her father,
and it is through his eyes that she is
able to see baseball and understand all
the nice points of the game, as she has
been doing for the last seven years.
He explains the game to her as it
progresses by means of a converse
tional code.
"When 1 was twelve years DID," she
said ''the Giants were winning the
pennant and my father was tremen-
dously excited about it. OF course I
asked him to explain, and he took
piece of cardboard and drew a dia-
mond on it, marking the bases. While
he told me about the game / traced
the diagram out with my fingers until
got the thing visualized in my mind.
Then I went to the games with him
and soon learned to understand them
by means of our code, usually ex-
pressed in monosyllables, word at a
time Soon I came to know the play
ars and, like others present, to get all
up over team work and bril-
liant individual performances"
In this way the blind girl came to
know the stars of the baseball world.
She can tell you all about the wonder
'ul feats of Christy Mathewson, Ty
Cobb and those of more recent date
Benny Kauff, Ross Young
md others. She laughingly says she |
las the time of her life when she goes |
o a ball game. She is sure that she |
sees all that is going on just about as
inyone else sees it.
Although Miss Harris was born
blind, she carries ray Of sunshine
With her wherever she goes, for she is
,heerful and optimistic. She is fond
# the outdoors and excels in walking,
and dancing. She is an &C.
pianist, speaks French flu
ntly and during the war was volun-
Ger worker for the Y. w. G. A.
Rooter for the Giants.
1t may be added that Miss Mildred
his year is betting on the Giants, but
he fact is she has always been a
rooter'' for the Giants. More than
nee, however, she had lost money on
hem, but is hoping that she will be
lcky enough to get some Of it back
his year. She feels it sin her bones
hat nothing can head the Giants off
MS year.
The ball game is the one place she
an go where she can throw aside for
lality and do just as she pleases, and
)r this reason it is her greatest recre-
ton.
"You see," she explains, "you don't
ave to be subdued and self-repressed
ut can boiler your head off if you
ant to, and nobody pays any atten-
on. When the game is not going just {
ght to suit everybody pandemonium s
igns and the whole crowd is in q {
ate of frenzy. 1t certainly Is great
,ort." s
Miss Harris modestly says she has S
zen given credit for having converted
any others into fans. She talks base I
ii enthusiastically to her friends and /
,quaintances and naturally they be- t
me interested and follow the crowd q
witness the great American game. I
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