A BRITTLE BOY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1934, Page 11

A BRITTLE BOY

■•. '. ■ ~ ' *». : ' . ' ■ If ever you should-meet the sistcen-ycar-pld Ernest, Gardener; .of Jkleadowrow, Buckingham, do not shake;, hands with liim—it iiiiglit'ljroak liis arm, -says the "I)aily,lTerald; J<': Ernest is; ■■England's most fragile boy.'■ -He haß'friietured .his limbs: sixteen times, ;.and his reeox'd is as follows:——Left arm, seveu; right arm, one; right leg, six; collarbone, Olio; and ; left log, ono. For tho last two years Ernest lias not walked, and yet six fractures have occurred during this period.;. Doctors,/however, liayo given him .hope that when he stops growing- .the- brittleness of "his bones will disappear. "When; lie waa eighteen mouths old," Ernest's -mother said, "he fell and fractured his .right thigh.' [ Four years later Tie broke his right arm sliakiiig hands. /The next year ho slipped and broke his right thigh and loft atm. The'bones had just set when he -turned in bed and broke his thigh again. He was taken to hospital, arid was being wheeled: to tho X-ray room, \vhen tho same ■ leg slipped and the kneo was fractured. After' lie'had recovered, a girl kicked a soft ball against his right leg and broke it below the knee." Grahairi' Direct, and Eoyal de Oro. 12.55: Gold- Coast - Handicap (for trotters). —Jacob, Lady Sonoma, and Princess Onyx. : 1.30: President's - Handicap.—Blandford, ltoyal do Oro, and Starvale. '."■. 2.20: Greymouth Trotting . ,Club Handicap.-—Beal Burton, Betty Wrack, and Encounter.-.■ 2.45: Victoria Park Handicap.—De Soto, ifidshipmaid, and Graham Direct. 3.20: County Handicap' (for trotters). —Flotsam, Sandy.N., and --Survivor. ■. 3.55: Improvers'. Handicap.^-^Dundee, Superb, :and BingeJi Palm. .-.•■• 4.30: Farewell Ilandieap.^-Great Antrim, Eeal Burton, and Yankceland.' j