The Lucknow Sentinel, 1969-01-29, Page 9EDNESDAY, JANUARY; ;2tth, i!a!
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
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By LOUIS CAtJZ
Reprinted',Froin The Toronto
Globe and Mail. .
The Maple Leaf praetice.'had
;been over for about. 50 minutes'
and Paul Henderson walked up
Church. Street toward the
parking lot.
It was shortly after 1. p.m.
and: Henderson's working, day
was over • until 10:30 a.m. the
next day.
• He had „ worked hard,"
practicing with linemates. Norm
Ullman and Floyd. Smith. He.
Was on the ice less: than 13.houis
after playing animportant role
tri Toronto's ' • 5-5 . tie with
Boston. '
The • swift,. ' • fluid—skating
left-winger with the •big shot had .,,
' set up two.goais,, including the.
game tying one with less than
• three minutes to play.
The two -assists stretched his
'streak • of games to seven in
which he has collected a point,
the. longest •streak of.. any Leaf
this season,
As. .he walked toward his car; •
'mounds of snow On the. front,
lawns' • . reminded him. 'of
Lucknow, his • :home, •in., : Bruce
County. `
• "You know,- if .'it wasn't for :R
• Jimmy' Skinner and my, dad,I
might' be ,teaching, school ,tip i
p n
Kincardine or :• Lucknow. this
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afternoon , :..
He recalled howthe two men'
influenced, his decision to seek `a
career in' professional hockey.
"it 'Was 196'2 • and we (the
Hamilton Red Wings) had just
.won. the.. Memorial.;' Cup. I was 18
'anal=finnluy; T-=was-snore=warned=--
• aboitt my education than
hockey:wa
. I nted . to get- my;
Grade .13. I wanted' to bet a
teacher:" ;
Henderson's mother felt the •.
way her son did , about
education.
"There•, were a.Jew guys up,
' that, way, . like . Denny, Riggin,
whom I : talked to. Hocken was.
great. if you .could makeit'to the
NHL. But •don't forget• at that
-time-there-wash' ansion and
there were only. 20 jobs in the
NHL '
"I didn't .know,. if 1 _ could
,make it. But Jimmy' more or less'
4convineect-me -I wasn't much --of
a:stickhan.dler, but' I could skate ..
• and ' shoot a puck. 't i. alivays.
could.. He said rhe thought I
• :could . make 'it..From' my past
-experiences . with Jimmy if h
said something he meant.. it. 'I'
trusted him..
`Anyway, - I thank my dad
really •wanted. me' to• give it a try:"`;`
Be was some. shakes ;of ahockey '
player .When he was young and
-•-ha-really-wanted-ripe-to mak ' "' .
Henderson's father, Garnet,;
.: who died • last summer, had.
--coached=hisLson--befoiete-joined=.--
the Detroit organization.
In a peewee tournament, the
• 11 -year-old Henderson .'scored
Six goals as the Lucknow team'
Won,7-2.
Four years later. in a juvenile'
game, he scored '1$' goals and set
• up two others 'in a 21-3. victory.
Henderson tallied '78 Ames in 16
• gamesthat season. .
I .could always shoot high,
which was pehaps. why L •got all
• those oals." '
• News .of his 18 goals in one
game sent NHL scouts 'scurrying
• into Bruce County:
Toronto, Boston and Detroit
representatives ,visited the
Henderson• household'.
"We were 'I'orontp fans, 'but
the fellow who phoned my dad
.o
teac'!
didn't impress us. He kind of put
us off, saying something like any
kid;. who scores 18 .goals. the
Leafs are interested in.
"Baldy Cotton; the _Boston
scout, o was real nice and we
decided that 'I should attend the
Bruins' junior camp in ~Niagara
Falls." •
Henderson- never made' it to -
.Niagara • Falls because Skinner
• persuaded him that he should
pay a visit to :the Red Wing camp .
in Hamilton on his way to the
Falls.;
• "He said .something about it
being -"tough to make a. junior
team right off . the.' bat and the:
three days of extra. conditioning,
'I'd; get in Hamilton would help
me . when I reported _ to the
Falls:"
Skinner's soft' sell, pad off.
Henderson enjoyed himself 'so
mdch in Hamilton, l e,decided to
stay for three •years:
He helped the junior Wings
win a Memorial :Cup. He: scored
49 goals, ' one season and was
named the most sportsmanlike
player in the Ontario Hockey
' Association, •
In the spring cif.1963 Detroit
called him up' • for their two
remaining' -games of the season.
• His - debut was against the
.Leafs, in . the Gardens ; and he
• made in impression almost the
first time he was on the ice,
"(Sid) .Abel ,told • me just to'
stay on' `my wing, but I .managed.
•:. to • get into ,a fight .with (Dick)`
'"- : Duff. ;I 'grabbed his stick and he
:took a swing at %me. I'm no
. fighter,' but. I; got a pretty good
headlock on'him. '
• Henderson .:turned • ,pro the '
next • 'season•' and after a •
lialf.season in the American::
League with .' Pittsburg,' he was
called up by Wings. '
At one time, he was
considered an untouchable iii
the Wings' organization •
Abel once said: "He'll . be
Detroit's next Gordie Howe."
• ,Henderson certainly;. showed
• the potential. ; He was an
excellent two-way player and
• after •a 22 -goal _ ' season in
- r spec d that he -was
on his way. to' 40' goals the next
season. . • '
After five games' lie had eight
goals, scoring four of them in a•
• 5-3 win over ew ' or • ..
But ' in November, Henderson
was ;stricken' with tracheitis, an
er
ailment that caused him : to gag.
and cough ,when cold air hit his •
lungs. For a while he wore a
surgical, mask. The Detroit club
finally sent him to Scottsdale,
Ariz., to clear up the malady '
When the. season was over,. he
glad played in only 46.garnes and
scored .21 goals. Leaf fans are
f• amiliar with what happened to
him last season when he was
traded. to Toronto. He scored in
his first game with Leafs and
• management. ,here feels.
.Henderson may yet. achieve the
stardom predicted four , years
ago:
He handles the • puck much.
better` these days because he his.,
discarded a curved blade. He still
'gets more chances to score than
any other Leaf. His 15. ;goals is
• second only to Norm Ullmaa,
If' Henderson ever does' make
it big,' like' a. Howe,. Hull Or
Beliveau, ,there will be 'a •lot. of
people:around..., &ucknow;
Kincardine Nand • Ambeiley'
recalling the night: he was born.
As his birthplace on January
28, 1943,, the NHL guide: lists ,
Kincardine. However;Bruce
County '•residents know that he
was bom in a sleigh' during .a ;
' snowstorm. at 6 a:m'. somewhere
on: the road between Amberley
• and the hospital in Kincardine:.
LETTER, TO THE EDITOR
DisiUrb
Arena Cr'osure
Lucknow'Sentineh,
Dear Sir:
LETTER TO THE EDITOR;
Keeps In
ith
Kenmore, New York.
Dear Don;
Here is my cheque for a few more
months of your: fine paper, It.
comes, anywhere: from Friday of the
same week -up to ,two :or three:
weeks.later• I received the Xmas,
edition. on:January 9. However it
'usually arrives on Friday or Satur:
day. I'll put it• another way.- about
40 editions •arrive dntime and the
rest wander around with the mail-
man- feels like bringing them
I hope you and ,all your family a
are• fine.. I enjoy' the,controversy.
over the• old arena• and wonder how
these jackknife carpenters ,can tell
experienced engineers whether or
DM the building is O. K. I think.
the: village. could .have hada nice
• new. arena for $35 , 0.00 and .now.
they have riothing' but headaches:.,'
Anyway keep up the good work ;'
and I `wish ••you alt the best .for the
coming year.
Sincerely,
Stewart Carneron
P S. How about a ,picture•of the
new front on the 'Legion Hall or: did
they go` ahead with it?
•I. enjoyed the: pictures of the'.snow
we had nothing hke; that here in .
the cty; but but iariiestown•way,
-.they had a similar -amount
:`Reading the write -up'pf Paul, Hen-.
derson which ,appeared recently in
the Globe .and•. Mail brings back
many memories of Lucknow and its.
Arena Lucknow' has: had . many.' out
standing' hockey playets who have . .
'kept the town: .on the• rriap-as the
great "Sepoy Village:of,Sports" .:
A few 'of the hockey players ;Like
Paul Henderson; that many of us
remember include Toby Greer,
The Chins '. o •,
John Dahmer , Ron
McLelland , 'Ernie Vaughan, Bob ,.
'Middlemiss•,, Lloyd. Hall',.George.• •
Westlake', George Richards 'and
many, many more that :We Couldn't.
eginito name: We'-`also`reweinlier-
the sign of Murray Murdoch, the
"1ron. Man of Hockey" Which hangs
at the west end •of the arena
Also other •great 'competitors as.
Ladies .6:30,' p.m.
Kath -lee Nl bo Ttid-rolled the-�-
high single game on Monday even-
ing -with 245 and Ferne MacDonald
the high triple of B54...
Team Points: ,Belle Mole's
Larks '7, Violet, Arnold's Swallows
0;. Ena Henderson's Phoebes 4,
Norma Mcbona h's Bobolinks 3;
Edi.
th, Webster`s Chickadees 4,Jean,
Phillips' lays 3 ' .
G a'mes of 200 and over; Kathleen
MacDonald 245, Ferrle MacDonald
•
..o
players: and coaches include',
"Pelt": McCoy, Harold Ritchie ; Bill
'Hunter , "Susy" Thompson., Bud"
:Hamilton„ •ill Johnstone and '7'
Charlie ,Webster. Again.:there are
malty We�•haven't mentioned
Many'iights w; err-Dad,tool u
'to the, game we would- have to
stand' in :line•'up past Finlayson's
store in order, to 'get alto see. tjre
202 and 203, Betty Kirkland 221;
Gay Garniss 203, Bernice Henry:
218, Janet McPherson 218, Norma
McDonagh 215.•
Tear Standings: Chickadees 86,.
Phoebes 10, Larks 65 ,. bobolinks •
62, Swallows• 58 , Jays ''5B;
•Vacationist:• I like the scenery'
around 'here, but the.people'{are
queer ,
Farmer: That's 'so. But one; good
thing, most' of them go back home:
in September:
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deprived of :these sports. 'Let us
hope not.
As a taxpayer m :Kinloss Township,
we hope'this situation of the closed
doors, will be reversed soon.:
s. Let uS:...kQpi,i
�i,cknow on the map_
as a .place` where mom and dad can
shop while the. kinds ,enjoy
action. •
• Now we have closed doors.
Must the children:oftoday :and
"maybe future uture hockey. greats" " of ..
tomorrow remain outside,
.,g Why can't "all parties° 'get
to' ether before 'it" is too rate 'and
Come . up ;with .a solution that will
be favorable to all, ,
Lucknow hasalways been a great-
hockey town and a place for the.
i. s to enjoy
ice carnivals, broomball and, indus,
trial hockey Many church 'orgahi
zations enjoyed young people's as
a skating party also;
Will the many ; 'many girls arid;
boys of today and tomorrow be' •
themselves at the rink.:
•.Alla-n R. Ivlill.er
`•'Toronto and La.ngside . '
Teacher; What is ignorance:._
Tommy?
Ignora-ce is when you
don't know anything and somebody
finds it out.
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