The Lucknow Sentinel, 1972-10-04, Page 14a
THE BRUCE RID.11NO
N.D.P.
JOINS ALL THE RESIDENTS OF THIS. AREA
IN EXTENDING WARM
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TO
PAUL HENDERSON
and all the memb*.s of
TEAM CANADA
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11-DY:-CANDMATE1N. BRUCE
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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO PAS! POURTEEN • .114PNESDAy OCTOBER 4th, mt
e • St
4. •
Lucknow
recalls
game
enderson
scored
17 goals
FROM THE TORONTO DAILY
STAR
son, as his mother sees
has been a long time dom-
ing.
The family wasn't weal.-
thy and when Paul started
playing at six under his
father's guidance, he used
Eaton's catalogues held up
by rubber bands from pre-
serve jars for shin pads.
The 'Henderson home
Mississauga was u,ri d e r
siege yesterday afternoon,
after jubilant pupils of Run-
• MRS:PAUL HENDERSON, the , -
former Eleanor Alton, daughter of
• -Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Alton of
West Wawandsh Township, is seen. Va I
as she boards the plane with sev-
eral of the Team Canada wives for
the trip to Russia:— --
No doubt ElearKir's smile' was
still there when'she returned. from
Europe, happy for the success of
Team Canada and particUlarly
that of trer-hottgrid-Pairl.
Paul Henderson's three
game-winning k o, a 1 s. for
• Team Canada impressed
millions, of Canadians. but
back home in .Lucknow
they still-recall_the_night
got 17.
Seventeen goals in one
game is how many pee wee
Paul Henderson s cored
when he was growing up in
that village of 1,100 some 70
miles north of London.
"There's no doubt about
it." said 'his mother, Evelyn
Henderson, at the family
home last night. "The Lord
• saw us through and answer- ,
ed our prayers. He heard
all those prayers we sent
up." ,
One of them that wasn't
.sent up is painted in bold
white letters on the side of
a barn as you enter Luck-
now: "P a u I Henderson,
number 19. best on ice. the
pride of Lucknow and all
Canada."
When the -big-goal-came,
all Mrs. Henderson ,
Members is jumping up.
"There's a low ceiling in .
our home. My head hit."
Success for Ptullierder-
0
S
I don't
excited Nor4. •Hendetgowiti .
slept since the last goal on
Thursday. I don't believe
this has all happened. It ,
hasn't sunk in yet." •
• 'The Hendersons w ere
married 10 years ago when
Paul was playing for the
Junior A Hathilton Red
Wings. They have three
daughters, Heather, 9,' Jen-
nifer, 7, and Jill 2. •
ningbrook Public , • School
chased the two. elder Hen-
derson daughters the twn
b*ks.horric
Babysitter arid Leaf wife
Mrs. .Darryl Sittler, gnt
tough and cleared the front
lawn. '!There- were about 30
Of them."
Up went: a • hand-lettered
sign on the front 'door warn• .
int-that thei-e was no. pbini
knOcking because they were
freSh Out of, Paul Henderson •
autographs.
Squatting on: the floor of •:
the•--sehool
and Jennifer, 7, watched '
the game' surrounded by
Scores , 'of schoolthate
ers. Two-year-old Jill saw
out the game at home with ;
her sitter. ,
Interviewed after the
• left-winger scored-the win-
ning goal Tuesday, Heather
hid • predicted her'Aather_
would get 'one rnore.yester•
"I was right," she said
last night. "I knew." . FROM THE TORONTO DAILY
STAR
Henderson
could be nayor
Though he's a star with
'the Toronto Maple Leafs;
the Henderson's liras 'had
been quiet until he was
named. to Team Canada to,
play in the eight-game se-
FROM THE TORONTO DAILY STAR
(Jerson and her two oldest
Children leaving for the air-
port to meet the 'team yes-
terday. ,
Last night at 10.30 Jenni-
fer. Heather and their
mother stood Warmly bun-
dled in the rain at Nathan
Phillips Square. Huddled in
the background where few
could see them, they
watched with Pride as Hen.'
derson was carried by his
teammates to the front of
the stage and listened to
the screams of thousands'of
fans.
And then, although the
fails kept cheering' for
more, the players and their
ftniliet left the stage for
. the underground' parking lot
where cars were Wang to
• -whisk them home.
"Our, life has changed,"
said Mrs. HendersOn—tired
and cold but happy,. "It will.
probably never be the
same."
„
Hockey hero Paul Hen-
derson has become so fa-
mous that his children are
neighborhood 'celebrities,'
his wife:* Nora, is pointed
out in Crowds and his Nils-
' sissauga house' iS overshad-
o!ed by congratulatory bill-
boards put there by delight-
ed fafis. •
"Our life his changed ov-
ernight," Mrs. Henderson
said yesterday. "We have
huge billboards all over the
front lawn welcoming Paul
home. the phone . hasn't
stopped ringing since I. got
back from IVLosco* on. Sa-
turday and we even have
a card widi over 1,0011aigno-
tares of hoine-owners 3n our
area. •
4 sI'm numb. I don't know
What day it, Is and I haven't
Paul' 'l'enders-hr could he
mayor of Toronto on he
strength of his series-win -
ning Da \ Id.
Roteriberg said yestertiay
"He could' heat n'it,'! no-
tenberg cOnfes.e.
asked how ho felt Anti Vic,
result of the Cana da-Ras a
hoCkey game in Moscow;.
• 4.
' ries against the Soviet na,
tional team and scored the •
winning goals in the last
three games.
"If Henderson was to run
for Prime Minister on'Oct:
30, he'd, win," said, :a hock- •
ey fan watch* Mrs, Hen-
.