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Show Institution for Blind Has Its Own Track Team Watertown, Mass. Matthew De Martino, track coach at Perkins Institution Insti-tution for the Blind, has devised a system sys-tem by which the blind boys can run clashes, high jump, and throw the shot- ' put. De Martino, who has normal sight, explained that in the dashes a wire is strung along the track with a rope tied to the ring. The boys hold the rope and the ring slides along. To warn the athletes of the finish line, a tape is bound around the wire and some rope ends dangle down. The shotput and high jump were the hardest hard-est events to master Lack of vision was the cause of the difficulty because it hampers the form. |