SEES WITH HIS EARS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4037, 4 January 1930, Page 3

SEES WITH HIS EARS.

BLIND BIOY’S FEAT

A remarkable instance of a youth’s triumph over blindness is contained in a story featured in a Sydney paper recently. ’The youth concerned is Erie Anderson, 13 years old, and he has been without sight since he was 18 months old. ’Through all the years intervening lie has been like other blind children, shut off from the full contact of the world in which he lives, and looking into the future without any hope of improvement. But the sound of a. racing motor cycle engine has brought real sunshine into his life at last. He has become Sydney’s only blind dirt track enthusiast.

He can conjure up in his mind ail almost accurate idea of the racing track and be cau pick up from a group of machines, by the purr of the engines, those which lie Knows belong to his ‘friends who race at the Wentworth Park speedway regularly each week. ‘ He knows all of them personally, and it is indeed touching to see them all go up to greet, him each time a meeting is held. It is a fact that he can sense their position in a race from the throb of their engines, just in the same manner ns a doctor senses a temperature from the throb of a pulse. He follows an event unerringly from start to finish, calls out the positions of the riders, and from the mere throb of the engine he tells those about him the name of the winner. Each time the speedway is open Erie Anderson is the centre of an admiring and marvelling group, who pay more attention to the changing expressions on his face than to the racing itself. To him, the speedway is light itself.