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Show BLIND GIRL FAN OF I NEW YORK FOLLOWS I GAMES BY SOUNDS! I UY JAMES IIFM.I .. . n i . Staff ( oirnpondcnl NEW YORK Aup 3d Hall one' Thirty thousand jialrs of eyes are fixed fix-ed upon Babe Iluth as he stands at the plate In the T'rlo Cirountis. Then a strike! Another hall Is on its way to tho catcher's mitt, but Babe's bat has mot it with a solid crash and the ball speeds on its way over the prnndstund In rlsht n Id Before anyone else, n jrounl ku'1 wearlnK bl.iol: pe-rtaeles ha "en.'fl what has happened. She leans over the hox, leadlnnr the cheers Tho Klrl Ik Mildred Harris daughter of Charles K. Harris who wrote "After the Ball," which has been sung in every corner of the earth to which Americana have penetrated. She has never seen Babe Ruth, tho she Is at the Polo Grounds three or four times a wed:. She has neverb sen her father. She has been blind from hirth. Yet h Is an ardent base-brill fan, nnd fdl)OWfl tho pames as intelll-I intelll-I gently and as closely as many persons i who have t.helr i-oslght. DIFFERENT SOI N D. "A safe hit has a sound entirety different from a foul or an easy t prounder," she explains. "As for r..-.le ! Ruth s homers, they hae a sound ill ' tht-lr own, and they are the sweetest ! musle 1 hne in-i- known." Before the pame Ruth was introduced intro-duced to her by l'lnp Bodle who, like ' ill the other Ynnks. considers Miss Karris a mascot Miss Harris Wished Babe pood luck. "Vour father will tell you If I pet I a homer,'' ho said. "Oh, he won't have to do that. ' she j replied. And he didn't. Before each pame her father reads to Miss Harris the lineups of the two opposing teams That is all Then he J sits bark and enjoys the game. Ills daughter Is fully capable of fol-lowmp fol-lowmp tin '.omul i.f bit md Pall .fl.l milt and through the umpires decls-I decls-I Ions. It is the rarest thing for her to i have to ask a question KEEN MEMORY. Who Is up next, who Is on base, how many are out. how many runs have been scored all tills M Iss Harris keeps In her mind by means of her marve-lously marve-lously retentive memory. Of course, Miss Harris is a New , York rooter. She thinks both the Yanks nnd tho Giants havo pood I chances to win this year, but she Warns the Giants that they must win and not divide double-heuders and the Yankees Yank-ees must form the habit of winning consistently, instead of in spurts BASEB M l. FIRST, Miss Harris cares for no other sports, hut she Is so fond of baseball that BBS BLIND :mi. PAN S 1Y8: Mildred Hirris. blind baseball fan H The pitchers may be Juutit ! d logically in objecting to the new H roles, but the fans like hitilns- H There is no Interest in a pitchers' battle between second division B It helps a great deal if the um- pli . ills his decisions plainly, tout I I have no favorite umpire. Has' - j anyone? There isn't any doubt that the LBff-V American league is stronger than" the National ,1 Brooklyn Is playing more consls-tent consls-tent base-hall than any team in tne H National league lH she refused to go to the country th'.s summer, even though her father i promised to bring her to the city for I one game each week. In the winter LH ! she has her books and her studies, but during the baseball season they take H ' second place. |