AGAINST HEAVY ODDS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18242, 28 November 1924, Page 11

AGAINST HEAVY ODDS.

STUDENT WITHOUT HANDS. J> * ft; (WOit otra OWN cobsbsfokdmt-) •' '3 . SYDNEY,-November 19. of the candidates at the^ leavingor matriculation examina-held-here, i 8 an unfortunate, but New Zealand'lad nanied Clyde 3 e^ law > for whom much sympathy--is ' It* e3 P.ite.his'severe handicap he.is with the intention of qua-li-Sjij 8 BS;.a 'solicitor. Clyde Eedshajv's forearms-were in a railway .accident, at years ago. ' He : writes now ijp'h the. pencil. firmly clasped between ®®Btunipg. He can also writo by hold|gj[ *h® pencil in his. mouth. 'For >.12 tliat :has boon: his-daily lot, but ®tO?esnot complain. -He.is fighting-his battle against terrible ■ odds - \vitfr on his face, and-he me.aiis. to_ win Two years* ago, 1 at the Wollongong School, he passed his intcYmediate gaining four B' passes a'nd Jrailw tJ\g'boy'is sitting' for. .tho leaving igjjlsiWjte.'' Having gdined '■ that—ana ;MPeachers eav.that he /will come with flying colours—Clyde b tart'work in a solicitor's office Articled clerk. , |l««ificial arms have boen bought tor «ut-;thOy pained him -bo much that ; breed to abandon them. The ; that Clyde asks of - the .S" wihalt it will accept hiis examinain pencil, .as he can- ;