BLIND MEN’S SKILL
FOOTBALL PLAYED BY NOISE METHOD OF SCORING A centre-forward who jumped with glee as he hanged home the winning goal in a football match at Sheffield a few weeks ago was totally blind, as, also, were the members of both teams. These footballers, who play wholly by ear, are engaged at Sheffield Corporation’s workshops for tiie blind. They play six-a-side in the works yard. Miss Emily S. Walls, superintendent home teacher of the workshops, states that the blind players’ deftness is surprising even to one acquainted with their uncanny skill in other directions. They first tried a rubber hall containing a boll, but this did not prove satisfactory. They soon solved the difficulty. One of their basket-making colleagues now ,provides them with balls woven from withes and filled with small crushed tins. During its flight and particularly when it strikes another object, the ball makes a frightful din. One of the goal areas is a wall, and when a score is registered the players are in no doubt of tho fact.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 June 1931, Page 10
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174BLIND MEN’S SKILL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 19 June 1931, Page 10
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