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W. A. Hewitt

January 01, 1970

"Billy Hewitt" redirects here. For his grandson, see Bill Hewitt (sportscaster). For other people, see Bill Hewitt.

William Abraham Hewitt (May 15, 1875 – September 8, 1966) was a Canadian sports executive and journalist, also widely known as Billy Hewitt.[a] He was secretary of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) from 1903 to 1966, and sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star from 1900 to 1931. He promoted the establishment of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA), then served as its secretary-treasurer from 1915 to 1919, registrar from 1921 to 1925, registrar-treasurer from 1925 to 1961, and a trustee of the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup. Hewitt standardized player registrations in Canada, was a committee member to discuss professional-amateur agreements with the National Hockey League, and negotiated working agreements with amateur hockey governing bodies in the United States. He oversaw referees within the OHA, and negotiated common rules of play for amateur and professional leagues as chairman of the CAHA rules committee. After retiring from journalism, he was the managing-director of Maple Leaf Gardens from 1931 to 1948, and chairman of the committee to select the inaugural members of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945.

W. A. Hewitt
Born
William Abraham Hewitt

(1875-05-15)May 15, 1875
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
DiedSeptember 8, 1966(1966-09-08) (aged 91)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Resting placeMount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto
Known for
Children2, including Foster Hewitt (son)
FamilyBill Hewitt (grandson)
Awards
HonoursDudley Hewitt Cup

Hewitt was a member of the Canadian Olympic Committee from 1920 to 1932, helped select athletes for the Summer and Winter Olympics, and was the head of mission for Canada at the 1928 Winter Olympics. He served as the financial manager for the Canada men's national ice hockey team which won Olympic gold medals in 1920, 1924, and 1928; while sending reports on the Olympic Games to Canadian newspapers. He introduced the CAHA rules of play to the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace in 1920, and refereed the first game played in the history of ice hockey at the Olympic Games. He also served on several committees for the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada, and including chairman of the registration committee which oversaw the reinstatement of professionals as amateurs.

In Canadian football, Hewitt managed the Toronto Argonauts from 1905 to 1907, served as vice-president of the Ontario Rugby Football Union, and helped organize the meeting which established the Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union in 1907. He was president of the Canadian Rugby Union from 1915 to 1919, sought to implement uniform rules of play across Canada, and was a referee for collegiate and inter-provincial games. In horse racing, Hewitt was a patrol judge at Woodbine Race Course, was a steward of the Incorporated Canadian Racing Association for 31 years, then a steward of the Ontario Racing Association for 14 years.

Hewitt was the father of radio sports announcer Foster Hewitt, and the grandfather of television sports commentator Bill Hewitt. Hewitt guided his son into radio, and together they called the 1925 King's Plate, the first horse race to be broadcast on radio. Later in life, Hewitt published his memoirs, had two arms broken in a car accident that killed his wife, and a heart attack while on a tour of Czechoslovakia with the Winnipeg Maroons. He was a life member of both the OHA and the CAHA, the guest of honour at two testimonial dinners, and multiple ice hockey trophies were named for him including the Dudley Hewitt Cup. He was inducted into the builder category of the Hockey Hall of Fame, the International Hockey Hall of Fame, and the IIHF Hall of Fame.

Early life and family edit

William Abraham[b][c] Hewitt was born on May 15, 1875, in Cobourg, Ontario, the son of a clothing merchant.[2][12][14] His parents James Thomas Hewitt and Sarah Hopkins had Irish-Canadian heritage.[12] Hewitt's mother was a schoolteacher born in Northern Ireland, and his father was a salesman born in Canada.[10] The family relocated to Toronto circa 1879, when Hewitt was age 4.[2][10] Hewitt's father worked as an inspector on horse-drawn carriages in Toronto,[15] then died when Hewitt was age 8.[10]

 
Jarvis Collegiate Institute

As a youth, Hewitt played team sports sparingly due to his small stature,[14] and learned the sport of boxing from his brothers.[16] At age 12, he pitched batting practice to professional baseball players at Sunlight Park, and later played baseball for the Victorias at Jesse Ketchum Park.[17] His first job was as a newspaper boy for the Toronto Empire, as he and his brothers earned money for the family after their father died.[18] Hewitt's subsequent jobs as a youth included sorting and polishing apples, a messenger at a law office, a labourer at the Eckhardt Casket Company, and as a stock boy at a grocery store owned by his uncle.[19] Hewitt completed his secondary school education at Jarvis Collegiate Institute.[20]

Hewitt was a member of the Anglican Church of Canada, and married Flora Morrison Foster on October 2, 1897, at the Church of the Holy Trinity.[13][21] They met while singing in the church choir, and she was the daughter of a local hardware merchant.[21] They had one daughter, Audrey (born 1898), and one son, Foster Hewitt (born 1902).[21][22]

Journalism career edit

Toronto News edit

 
William Lyon Mackenzie King, c. 1891

Hewitt began working in newspapers at age 14,[9] and earned C$4 per week as a copy boy with the Toronto News.[2][14] The paper's city editor left Hewitt in charge one afternoon, with instructions to fire a young reporter named William Lyon Mackenzie King if he showed up. Hewitt sat at the editor's desk, when King showed up a few minutes later and resigned before Hewitt could tell him he was fired. Later in life, Hewitt regretted the missed opportunity to fire the future prime minister of Canada.[23]

At age 15, Hewitt began his journalism career writing for the Toronto News, with a salary of $10 per week. His first assignment was reporting on the strapping of a convicted sex offender at the Toronto Central Prison.[24] He later reported on baseball and lacrosse,[22] events at Massey Hall, and regularly covered the police and court beat in Toronto.[25] In 1894, Hewitt reported on his first Queen's Plate for horse racing.[26] He became the sports editor of the Toronto News at age 20, and gathered his information through multiple contacts he made in the sports world.[27] His boss at the Toronto News, H. C. Hocken, gave Hewitt a pay raise to $20 per week as the sports editor.[28]

During the late-1890s, Hewitt and business partners arranged day trips by train for spectators to attend the Fort Erie Race Track, and the Kenilworth Racetrack in Buffalo, New York.[26] In addition to sports, Hewitt covered Toronto City Council meetings, and reported on the opening of Toronto City Hall in 1899.[29] He was also the press agent for the Grand Opera House during the late-1890s.[30]

Montreal Herald edit

 
Joseph E. Atkinson

Publisher Joseph E. Atkinson convinced Hewitt to transfer to the Montreal Herald as the sports editor, with a starting salary of $25 per week, and the promise to cover Hewitt's travel expenses to and from Montreal on weekends, and future advancement if the paper prospered.[31] He accepted the offer and learned that there was a bitter rivalry between the owners of the Montreal Herald and the Montreal Star. He subsequently declined a twofold pay raise to join the Montreal Star due to his loyalty to Atkinson.[32] Hewitt wrote in his memoirs that when he introduced nets to hockey goalposts in 1899, it increased the tension between the Montreal newspapers, and that the idea was ridiculed by the Montreal Star and the Montreal Gazette. Hewitt arranged for the nets to be used in a local game between the Montreal Victorias and the Montreal Shamrocks, after taking inspiration from fellow journalist Francis Nelson, to resolve disputed goals.[33]

Toronto Daily Star edit

 
The Toronto Daily Star building, c. 1914

Hewitt returned to Toronto, and was the sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star from 1900 to 1931.[11][34] His transition from Toronto to Montreal and return took less than three months, when Atkinson purchased the Toronto Daily Star and Hewitt followed him to Toronto in January 1900.[35] Hewitt sought for his sports staff to write articles which were accurate, brief, and included the result of the game in the first paragraph, such that it was easier to shorten the article if more page space was sold for newspaper advertising.[36]

As the sports editor, his favourite topics were ice hockey and Canadian football.[37] He also regularly covered baseball, boxing, horse racing, and lacrosse;[37][38] in addition to sports played by the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union.[39] He also attended and wrote about the July 4, 1919, boxing match when Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight title from Jess Willard.[2]

During the early-1900s, Hewitt reported on the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team in the International League, and travelled with the team to spring training and some road games.[40] Also during the early-1900s, Hewitt shared in a business venture which operated a baseball World Series scoreboard at several theatres in Toronto. The scoreboard lights for hits, baserunners, and game play, relayed by a telegrapher, to provide patrons with an in-theatre recreated version of a live baseball game. Due to the increasing costs of wire services and renting the buildings, the boards were later used outside of the Toronto Daily Star building instead.[41]

In 1901, Hewitt began publishing horse racing results from tracks in the United States, in addition to results from tracks in Ontario.[26] In 1910, he was charged with breach of racing laws for "printing, publishing, and selling a daily racing record".[42] He pleaded not guilty while sale of the paper stopped,[42] and was subsequently fined $100 for violation of the Miller Act.[43][d] In 1921, he was charged with "advertising, publishing, exhibiting and selling" a horse racing form in Toronto, which was alleged to assist in placing wagers on races.[45] Fellow journalist Francis Nelson argued that the form assisted sports editors in reporting the horse's record, that it was also useful to horse breeders, and that it did not specialize in betting any more than newspapers.[45] Hewitt was later convicted and fined $25, despite that the judge stated Hewitt had not knowingly broken any law.[46][47]

 
Foster Hewitt

Hewitt was interested in connecting newspapers to radio broadcasts, and took his son Foster to a radio convention at the General Motors Building in 1921.[48] He then guided his son into a career in radio, as a more popular medium for sport.[2][49]

In October 1931, Hewitt resigned as sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star and was succeeded by Lou Marsh, his assistant of 26 years.[7][50] During his journalism career, Hewitt preferred to write his stories by hand and never used a typewriter.[51] Upon his retirement, The Kingston Whig-Standard described Hewitt as, "a most prolific writer, a man with a keen knowledge of all sports, no matter what they are, and above all, at all times one of the fairest writers newspaperdom ever knew".[50]

Ontario Hockey Association edit

Hewitt became involved in ice hockey as a player and on-ice official, and reported on the game as a journalist.[52] He was the representative for the Toronto Wellingtons and the Toronto St. George's teams at meetings of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) during the late-1890s. At the urging of several clubs in Toronto, Hewitt was convinced to stand for election to the OHA executive.[53] He was elected secretary of the OHA on December 8, 1903,[2] to succeed fellow journalist William Ashbury Buchanan.[54] As secretary, Hewitt received an honorarium for expenses which was increased annually from $200 as of 1903.[22] He was chairman of the OHA schedule committee;[55] and sat on sub-committees to divide teams into groups for league play, and review registrations by players requesting to change teams.[56]

 
Cyclone Taylor

During the early-1900s, Hewitt, John Ross Robertson, and the OHA president at the time, sat on a standing committee to review protests and suspensions. Hewitt wrote in his memoirs that the committee was jokingly known as the "Three White Czars", because of their power to "exile offenders to hockey's Siberia".[57] During the 1904–05 season, the OHA declined a request by Cyclone Taylor to transfer from Listowel to Thessalon, with the decision being relayed by Hewitt.[58] Taylor recalled the incident in his autobiography, and wrote that Hewitt telephoned him with an invitation to play for the Toronto Marlboros senior team. Taylor declined the offer since he wanted to stay at home where he had a job, and stated that Hewitt responded, "If you won't play for the Marlies, you won't play anywhere".[58] Seventy years later, Taylor said that he never forgave Hewitt for the season's suspension.[58]

Hewitt represented the OHA executive committee during the playoffs, to witness the games any incidents that the executive may have to deal with, and to collect the OHA's share of the gate receipts.[59] During a playoffs game in Smiths Falls in 1905, Hewitt arrived late when he train was delayed in a snowfall, then rink management refused to handover the gate receipts to Hewitt when the game did not complete due to on-ice incidents. The next day, Hewitt met with James Whitney, the premier of Ontario, who ordered the local clerk to hand over the money promptly.[59]

Referees and playing rules edit

 
Hewitt, c. 1920

As the secretary, Hewitt was the de facto referee-in-chief of the OHA.[60] He scheduled the referees for playoffs games in Ontario,[61] and was empowered to appoint referees for league games as of 1924, instead of the two teams agreeing on a referee.[62] He spoke annually at referee meetings to review interpretations of new and existing rules of play, and sought consistency and more strict enforcement of the rules when dealing with dissent and physical play.[63] In 1951, he supported the implementation of monetary fines for players who verbally abused on-ice officials.[64]

Professionalism and arena contracts edit

In 1924, the OHA voted to keep its ban on professional coaches in amateur hockey.[62] When Queen's University at Kingston hired a full-time athletic director, Hewitt felt that the OHA should allow the director's involvement with the hockey team despite him being a paid professional. Hewitt proposed an amendment to the constitution which would allow the executive to scrutinize any coach and decide on the registration. The amendment was rejected by delegates who remained against any professionals in the OHA.[65] Two years later, Hewitt brought up the issue again and argued that, "the original intention of this rule was to control the [professional] coach, not exterminate him".[66] His constitutional amendment was subsequently approved in the late-1920s.[66]

When the OHA contract with Arena Gardens was up for renewal in the late-1920s, some executives preferred the Ravina Gardens where teams could get 50 per cent of the gate receipts, compared to only 35 per cent of the gate receipts at the Arena Gardens. Hewitt argued that 35 per cent of a larger arena in an established part of the city would be more profitable than 50 per cent of a smaller arena under construction in a newer part of the city. Hewitt promised to negotiate a better deal, in exchange for the contract with Arena Gardens to be renewed on a year-by-year basis.[67] Hewitt subsequently became an influence on Conn Smythe's decision to build Maple Leaf Gardens.[49]

 
Maple Leaf Gardens

Hewitt retired from journalism and became the managing-director of Maple Leaf Gardens, on October 17, 1931, and oversaw all events other than hockey[7][68] The OHA signed multiple five-year contracts with the Gardens, in which all Toronto-based teams in the OHA played home games at the arena, except for the University of Toronto teams.[69][70] He remained managing-director of the Gardens until 1948, and attended every professional and amateur hockey game at the arena during his tenure.[14]

In 1933, Frank J. Selke testified in court that the Toronto Marlboros had a proposed agreement to guarantee its finances by the Toronto Maple Leafs. The agreement went unsigned when Hewitt voiced opposition to the financial support of amateur teams by professional teams.[71] Despite concerns from some that Hewitt was connected to professional hockey in his position at Maple Leaf Gardens, the OHA executive upheld his eligibility to be the secretary, since he had no say into the management of the Toronto Maple Leafs.[72]

Later years and retirement edit

During World War II, Hewitt oversaw assistance by the OHA to charities in Toronto which raised funds to support the war effort, including the local Canadian Red Cross.[73]

In January 1948, the OHA hired George Panter as an assistant secretary to reduce the workload on Hewitt, then later made Panter its business manager to oversee day-to-day operations. Hewitt retained his office at Maple Leaf Gardens where he kept the OHA's records, despite that a new office was opened across the road in a Canadian Bank of Commerce building. Bill Hanley became the business manager in 1951, and Hewitt's role gradually decreased.[74] The OHA established a permanent referee-in-chief position in 1952, and lessened the workload on Hewitt.[60]

Hewitt was acclaimed as secretary of the OHA for the 1965–66 season, his final election to the position.[75] He retired in May 1966, and the OHA transferred the secretary's duties to Bill Hanley, and renamed his position from business manager to secretary manager.[76][77]

Canadian Amateur Hockey Association edit

As the sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star, Hewitt promoted the proposal by the Manitoba Hockey Commission to establish a national body to govern amateur hockey.[78] The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) was founded on December 4, 1914, then began organizing national playoffs for the Allan Cup awarded to the champion of senior ice hockey, and drafted player eligibility and registration rules.[79]

Secretary, 1915 to 1919 edit

 
J. F. Paxton

When OHA president James T. Sutherland was elected president of the CAHA in December 1915, he appointed Hewitt as the CAHA secretary.[80] Sutherland then served in Europe with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, and Hewitt worked alongside OHA executive J. F. Paxton to keep the CAHA functional.[81][82] Hewitt conducted business as needed by mail-in votes, without holding annual elections or meetings due to prohibitive costs during war time austerity measures.[82][83] He assisted Allan Cup trustees to schedule national playoffs for the trophy,[84] and collaborated with Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association secretary W. C. Bettschen on drafting uniform rules for the competition.[85]

The Memorial Cup was established for the junior ice hockey championship of the CAHA as of 1919.[86] Hewitt assisted with scheduling its playoffs games,[87] and was subsequently named one of the cup's trustees.[49] In March 1919, the CAHA held its first annual meeting after a four-year hiatus, and adopted uniform rules for Allan Cup competition, and sought to form an alliance with senior hockey in the United States. At the same meeting, Hewitt was succeeded as CAHA secretary by W. C. Bettschen.[88] In October 1919, Hewitt and Paxton reached an agreement with the International Skating Union of the United States to govern and resume international games which halted during the war.[89]

Registrar, 1921 to 1925 edit

In October 1921, the CAHA established a national registration committee and named Hewitt its registrar. The committee included the registrar, the sitting president, and two members each from Eastern and Western Canada; and aimed to investigate all registrations to exclude professionals and reduce the number of players transferring teams solely for hockey instead of employment.[90] The CAHA also wanted to eliminate Canadian players going to American-based teams for one season then returning.[91] Hewitt then implemented standard registration and transfer forms completed in triplicate, including copies for the player's team, the local governing body, and the CAHA registrar.[92] He also served as the CAHA's alternate representative to the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada (AAU of C), the governing body for amateur sports in Canada.[93]

In 1922, the CAHA accepted the Hamilton B. Wills Trophy as the senior hockey championship of North America, which saw the Allan Cup champion challenge the United States Amateur Hockey Association (USAHA) champion in a playoffs series. Hewitt was named one of the cup's trustees and assisted in scheduling the international games.[94][95] In 1923, Hewitt and J. F. Paxton collaborated to negotiate an agreement to govern the migration of senior hockey players to and from the USAHA,[95] and a proposal for the CAHA to assume control of the Allan Cup.[92] The trustees of the Allan Cup remained in control of the trophy, but agreed that proceeds from gate receipts for the Allan Cup playoffs would be held in trust and expended as requested by the CAHA.[95]

Registrar-treasurer, 1925 to 1961 edit

 
The George Richardson Memorial Trophy

The CAHA appointed Hewitt to the newly created registrar-treasurer position in March 1925, adding financial oversight to his duties in addition to the registration committee.[96] In 1929, Hewitt as the registrar-treasurer, and Fred Marples as the secretary, were made permanent positions on the CAHA executive committee.[97][98] When the George Richardson Memorial Trophy was established the junior hockey champion of Eastern Canada in 1932, Hewitt was made one of its trustees.[99]

In 1937, the CAHA made the registrar-treasurer and secretary positions non-permanent members of the executive to be filled by appointment,[100] with Hewitt re-appointed to be the registrar-treasurer.[101] In 1938, the CAHA removed voting power from the registrar-treasurer and secretary and positions, making the positions administrative only.[102] In April 1939, Hewitt was one of several guest speakers at the CAHA's silver jubilee, and gave introductions for each 11 of the 13 past presidents in attendance.[103]

Hewitt was chairman of the CAHA finance committee during World War II. He oversaw monetary gifts to the Government of Canada and the purchase of victory bonds to help with the war effort, and grants towards the development of minor ice hockey.[104][105] CAHA president Frank Sargent chose to host the Memorial Cup finals at Maple Leaf Gardens during the war to generate the greatest profit to reinvest into hockey in Canada.[106] Hewitt noted that Maple Leafs Gardens attracted large crowds to junior hockey, compared to Winnipeg, Regina and Edmonton, which were hotbeds for junior hockey in Western Canada, but their rinks had lesser spectator capacity.[107]

Player registrations edit

In 1925, the CAHA and OHA were determined to stop players from moving about the country solely for hockey. After the CAHA set its residency deadline to be May 15 instead of August 1, Hewitt advised that all players must establish bona fide residency to play within the CAHA.[96][108] The CAHA further tightened its residency deadline to January 1, as of the 1932–33 season.[109]

During the 1930s, the CAHA was faced with players returning from professional tryouts without signing a contract. The AAU of C had a policy that such players would be classified as professional and ineligible for amateur play in the same season.[109][110] Since that policy had not been enforced before, CAHA president Jack Hamilton ruled that those players' cards would be cancelled without penalty to the team.[110] When the AAU of C ruled in 1933 that anyone who had not played professional hockey in three years could apply for reinstatement as an amateur, Hewitt interpreted that the intent was to allow former professionals who were not "undesirables" to return to amateur hockey.[111]

 
E. A. Gilroy

In an effort to eliminate the "hockey tourist" in 1934, CAHA president E. A. Gilroy decreed that no player would be permitted to transfer between branches of the CAHA after January 1, without residency being established.[112] Hewitt and the registration committee subsequently allowed transfers after January 1 only for those playing on college teams, or legitimate relocation for employment.[113]

Hewitt announced a rule change as of the 1935–36 season, whereby any amateur player who wanted to try-out for a professional team could seek approval to do so by December 1, and could then return to amateur hockey providing that no contract was signed nor any money was received.[114]

In 1940, the CAHA changed its definition of an amateur to be, "any player not playing organized professional hockey".[115] Hewitt explained that the change prevented a professional club from using a player for a few games before returning him to amateur hockey, and that a professional player still needed to have one year's absence from organized hockey to be reinstated as an amateur.[115]

During World War II, Hewitt and the registration committee loosened player transfer and replacement rules when wartime enlistments led to player shortages.[116] CAHA president George Dudley defended the decision to reinstate former professionals as amateurs to prevent a shortage of player, despite it strengthening Royal Canadian Air Force teams compared to club teams.[117] After the war, Hewitt and the CAHA chose to allow discharged members of the Canadian Armed Forces to join any club in the CAHA, without requirement to meet existing residency or transfer rules.[118]

Hewitt acknowledged that money had changed hands when players were released from one branch to another, and believed that a club who spent money to develop a player was entitled to some remuneration such as a transfer fee. After the war, he and the CAHA discussed implementing a draft system for compulsory payments to release a player. He argued that a plan would be imminent, and that it would prevent arguments when players changed teams.[119]

Allan Cup competition edit

 
The Allan Cup trophy

In November 1926, Allan Cup trustee William Northey suggested that the trophy be withdrawn unless the teams competing for it followed the amateur code more strictly. Hewitt felt that the sole point of contention was the travel allowance given by the CAHA, to teams travelling to play in Allan Cup games. The CAHA sought a new financial deal with the trustees, since it was financially dependent on the proceeds from Allan Cup gate receipts.[120] H. Montagu Allan agreed to donate the Allan Cup outright to the CAHA, and control of the Allan Cup along with a surplus of $20,700, was formally transferred to the CAHA in a ceremony at the Château Laurier on March 26, 1928.[121] Hewitt was subsequently named a trustee of the Allan Cup in 1929.[98]

Professional-amateur agreements edit

 
Frank Calder

Hewitt and CAHA past-president W. A. Fry attended the 1930 National Hockey League (NHL) general meeting to seek a better working agreement. The CAHA suggested that players remain as amateurs for one season after graduating from junior hockey, and in return the CAHA would permit its amateurs to tryout and practice with professional teams.[122] Hewitt subsequently met multiple times with NHL president Frank Calder, who saw merit in Hewitt's request to keep players in amateur hockey, and continued to discuss a professional-amateur agreement.[123]

The NHL terminated the professional-amateur agreement in 1938, when a player suspended from the NHL was allowed to register as an amateur in Ottawa. Hewitt sat on the committee to reach a new agreement.[124] The CAHA agreed to decline overseas transfers for players on NHL reserve lists, and the NHL agreed not to sign junior-aged players without consent. Both bodies agreed to use the same playing rules, and recognized each other's suspensions.[125]

In 1942, Hewitt met with NHL to seek financial compensation on behalf of teams in Ontario, for the loss of amateur players who turned professional.[126] The CAHA agreed to defer the NHL's development payments to amateur teams, until the players lost to wartime enlistments had returned to professional hockey.[127] The professional-amateur agreement was renegotiated and the NHL agreed to pay a flat rate of $500 to the CAHA.[128]

Hewitt was part of the negotiating committee in 1952, where the CAHA and NHL agreed to a January 15 deadline for professional teams to call up players from the CAHA's Major Series of senior hockey. The agreement gave the NHL a source of emergency replacement players, and prevented teams in Canada from losing players during the Alexander Cup playoffs.[129]

In 1953, the NHL terminated the professional-amateur agreement when it the CAHA restricted the movement of junior-aged players from Western Canada to NHL-sponsored teams in Eastern Canada.[130] Junior teams in Western Canada wanted to keep their best players and sought greater financial compensation. Hewitt participated in negotiations to reach a new agreement in 1954, and felt that having an agreement with the professionals was "the greatest thing this organization has ever had", and that it would be "a crime" to lose it.[131] The CAHA agreed to distribute playoffs proceeds proportional to the profit on a series-by-series basis, but rejected the request for transfers from west to east.[132]

International relations edit

 
William S. Haddock

The CAHA cancelled its alliance with the USAHA in 1925, after Hewitt had three months of unsuccessful negotiations regarding of player transfers.[96] The USAHA subsequently disbanded following the 1924–25 season.[133] The CAHA resumed international playoffs for senior hockey when Hewitt arranged a season between the 1934 Allan Cup champion Moncton Hawks and the Detroit White Stars.[134] He then travelled to the United States to locate the Hamilton B. Wills Trophy that had not been competed for since 1925. He believed the trophy to be in the possession of William S. Haddock, who was president of the USAHA when it folded.[135]

The Great Britain national men's team defeated Canada and won the gold medal in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics, in which Jimmy Foster and Alex Archer played for Great Britain while under suspension by the CAHA.[136] The relationship between the CAHA and the British Ice Hockey Association (BIHA) deteriorated, and the CAHA banned all of its players from applying for transfers to Great Britain until an agreement was reached. Hewitt was part of the committee to negotiate peace with the BIHA.[137] A new agreement was announced on June 27, 1936, where the BIHA agreed to the CAHA approving player transfers, and that all players suspended by the CAHA would not play in Great Britain.[138]

In April 1937, Hewitt arranged an international tournament hosted in Toronto among the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup champions of the CAHA, the Eastern Amateur Hockey League (EAHL) and the English National League. The tournament coincided with national teams playing at the 1937 Ice Hockey World Championships held at the same time in England.[139] The world's amateur club team title was contested by the Wembley Lions, the Hershey Bears, the Sudbury Tigers, and the Winnipeg Monarchs.[140] In August 1937, Hewitt was part of a CAHA delegation which reached a working agreement with the EAHL that ended wholesale roster moves from Canada to the United States, and allowed for one player per Canadian team to be imported to the league with additional transfers possible if approved by the CAHA.[141]

The CAHA and the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States collaborated to establish the International Ice Hockey Association in 1940, as a governing body for international hockey due to inactivity of the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace (LIHG) during World War II.[142] Hewitt served as one of the CAHA delegates to meetings of the International Ice Hockey Association.[143]

Playing rules committee edit

In 1923, Hewitt sought to standardize the weight of the hockey puck since nothing was mentioned in the playing rules of hockey at the time. He met with rubber manufacturers and had 11 different types of pucks tested and weighed, before a rule was implemented for a puck to weigh 5.5–6 ounces (160–170 g).[144] The CAHA appointed Hewitt to its rules committee in 1924, with the intent of standardizing the rules across Canada, and to liaise with professional leagues.[93] He served as chairman of the CAHA rules committee until the 1950s, and negotiated to have common rules for amateur and professional leagues.[145]

At the 1925 CAHA general meeting, Hewitt reported on establishing uniform rules with professional leagues, and indicated that Frank Calder of the NHL, and E. L. Richardson of the Western Canada Hockey League were willing to co-operate, whereas Frank Patrick of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association showed no interest.[146] Later in the same year, the CAHA rules committee was empowered to align amateur rules with the professional rules. Rules changes included elimination of body checking in the centre ice area between the blue lines, limiting the number of substitutes from three to two, increasing the distance from the end of the rink to the blues lines 20–40 feet (6.1–12.2 m), and allowing goaltenders to throw the puck behind their net instead of having to skate away with it.[147]

 
Diagram of an ice hockey rink and its markings: The centre ice red line was introduced to the hockey rink in the 1943–44 season.

Hewitt continued to meet with Frank Calder in the 1920s and 1930s to discuss uniform rules of play, and consistent ice rink markings and dimensions.[148] Calder and the NHL pushed for the CAHA to adopt the professional rules, which he felt were supported by spectators and increased tickets sales in the NHL.[123] In 1929, the CAHA gave referees more powers to penalize infractions and to deter abusive language. Hewitt supported a rule change which allowed a referee to give a three-minute penalty to a player throwing a stick to prevent a goal-scoring opportunity.[149] In 1932, Hewitt toured Western Canada attending referee schools to have uniform interpretation of the rules of play.[150]

In 1938, Hewitt and the NHL agreed to implement a delay of game penalty for players holding the puck against the boards unless being challenged by an opposing player, and to widen the blue lines to reduce the number of offside infractions.[151] In 1941, the CAHA permitted its member associations to choose between utilizing a system with two referees and no linesmen during a game, or to have a three-official system with one referee and two linesmen.[152]

In 1943, the NHL agreed to a recommendation by the CAHA rules committee to implement a centre ice red line, to allow for longer passes by the defensive team without being ruled offside.[105][153] The change allowed the defending team to pass the puck to out of their own zone up to the red line, instead of being required to skate over the nearest blue line then pass the puck forward.[154]

The CAHA dissolved its rules committee in 1945, then resumed it in 1946 with Hewitt as chairman.[155] In 1947, the committee adopted the NHL's rules for offside and icing in 1947.[156] In 1948, Hewitt represented the CAHA in joint meetings with the NHL, the American Hockey League, and the United States Hockey League, to standardize playing rules in amateur hockey and multiple tiers of professional hockey.[157] In 1954, Hewitt favoured tightening the interpretation of rules by on-ice officials as a means to deter elbowing, high-sticking and boarding infractions.[158] He was named honorary chairman of the CAHA rules committee in 1959.[159]

Hockey's history and hall of fame edit

 
James T. Sutherland

In 1941, the CAHA appointed a committee to write a history of hockey in Canada, led by James T. Sutherland, including Hewitt and Quebec hockey executive George Slater.[152][160] In 1943, the committee concluded that hockey had been played in Canada since 1855, and that Kingston and Halifax had equal claims to be the birthplace of hockey, since both cities hosted games played by the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment. The report also stated that Kingston had the first recognized hockey league in 1885, which merged into the OHA in 1890.[161] A delegation from Kingston then went to the CAHA general meeting in 1943, and was endorsed to establish a Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston.[160]

In September 1943, Hewitt was named to the board of directors for selecting inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame, and sought recommendations by sportswriters from The Canadian Press and the Associated Press.[162] He was named chairman and secretary of the board of governors in 1944,[163] and the CAHA agreed to donate 25 per cent of its profits from the 1945–46 season to help erect a building for the hall of fame.[164] In May 1945, Hewitt announced that nine players were the first group of inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame.[165] In October 1945, a special committee chosen by the board of governors named six "builders of hockey" to be added to the inaugural group of inductees.[166]

The Hockey Hall of Fame committee was incorporated in 1948, and elected an additional seven to its board of governors to give representation to a broader area.[167] Hewitt remained on the board of governors until 1950.[168] By September 1955, a building for the hall of fame had not been constructed in Kingston, when a group of businessmen from Toronto were given approval for a hall of fame building which opened at Exhibition Place in Toronto in 1961. A separate International Hockey Hall of Fame later opened in Kingston in 1965.[160]

Later years and retirement edit

Hewitt accompanied the Winnipeg Maroons as the CAHA representative on an exhibition tour of Czechoslovakia from December 1960 to January 1961.[169][170] He retired as the registrar-treasurer at age 86 on May 23, 1961,[9] and was succeeded by Gordon Juckes.[171]

On May 18, 1964, Hewitt cut the ceremonial ribbon at the Hockey Hall of Fame, to unveil CAHA plaques which commemorated the association's 50th anniversary.[172]

Olympics and athletics executive edit

During World War I, Hewitt served on the executive of the Sportsmen's Patriotic Association, which sought to provide sporting equipment to soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.[173] After the war, he sat on the AAU of C committee for the postwar reconstruction of sports.[174]

1920 Summer Olympics edit

 
Hewitt and the Winnipeg Falcons at the 1920 Summer Olympics

The CAHA chose the Winnipeg Falcons as the 1920 Allan Cup champions to represent the Canada men's national team in ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics, instead of forming a national all-star team on short notice.[175][34] Hewitt represented the Canadian Olympic Committee and oversaw finances for the Falcons, and reported on the Olympic Games for Canadian newspapers.[176][177] He and his wife were a father and mother figure to the Falcons,[178] and sailed with them aboard SS Melita from Saint John to Liverpool, then onto Antwerp.[175]

Hewitt introduced the CAHA rules of play to the LIHG at the Olympics.[179] Writer Andrew Podnieks described Hewitt's interpretation of the rules as "competitive yet gentlemanly", and that the rules of play were accepted for Olympic hockey.[180] Hewitt refereed the first game played in the history of ice hockey at the Olympic Games, an 8–0 win by the Sweden men's national team versus the Belgium men's national team, on April 23, 1920.[181] Hewitt felt that the Sweden team was physically rough by Canadian standards, since they knocked down the opposing player before taking the puck. After he stopped the game and asked if anyone on the team spoke English, the goaltender for Sweden briefly spoke with Hewitt then conferred with his teammates, but they did not understand Hewitt's instructions on the Canadian style of play.[182] The Falcons and the Hewitts returned home aboard SS Grampian from Le Havre to Quebec City.[183] The Falcons honoured Hewitt and his wife at a private dinner and presented them with a silver cup inscribed with the number 13, for the number of people who made the trip to the Olympics and the team's lucky number.[34][184]

The Canadian Olympic Committee named Hewitt to its sub-committee for boxing to select who represented Canada at the 1920 Summer Olympics,[185] and had been credited with officiating hundreds of bouts as a boxing referee in Toronto.[2] He oversaw travel arrangements for the national team to the remainder of the 1920 Summer Olympics which began in August.[186] The boxers which he helped select won one gold, two silver, and two bronze medals for Canada.[187]

1924 Winter Olympics edit

 
Hewitt with the Toronto Granites at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Hewitt was appointed to the Canadian Olympic Committee in 1923, by its president Patrick J. Mulqueen to represent the CAHA.[188] The CAHA chose the Toronto Granites as the 1923 Allan Cup champions to represent Canada in ice hockey at the 1924 Winter Olympics, and Hewitt was again chosen oversee the national team's finances at the Olympics.[189][190] Hewitt was empowered by the CAHA to name replacement players as needed,[191] and recruited Harold McMunn and Cyril Slater as replacements when four players from the Granites were unable to travel to the Olympics.[192]

The Granites and Hewitt sailed from Saint John, aboard SS Montcalm to Liverpool, then travelled to Chamonix.[193] In his weekly report to the Toronto Daily Star, Hewitt wrote that the Granites would face multiple changes in conditions compared to hockey games in Canada. He did not feel the team would be affected by playing outdoors on natural ice in the morning or afternoon, despite that the team was accustomed to playing indoors with electric lighting on artificial ice. He also felt that the larger ice surface and lack of boards around the sides of the rink would mean more stick handling and less physical play.[194]

During the Olympics, Hewitt attended the annual meeting and elections for the LIHG. Since its rules stated that one of the vice-presidents must be from North America, Hewitt and USAHA president William S. Haddock opted for a coin toss, which decided that Haddock was elected to the position.[195] When the Olympics organizers wanted to select hockey referees by drawing names out of a hat, Hewitt and Haddock agreed to another coin toss to decide on the referee for the game between Canada and the United States men's national team. Hewitt feared having an inexperienced referee for the game, and his suggested to have LIHG president Paul Loicq officiate the game was confirmed by the coin toss.[196] The Granites defeated the United States team by a 6–1 score, and won all six games played to be the Olympic gold medallists.[197] After the Olympics, Hewitt accompanied the Granites to exhibition games in Paris and London, followed by an audience with HRH The Prince of Wales at St James's Palace, then sailing to Canada aboard SS Metagama from Liverpool to Saint John.[198]

1924 to 1928 edit

Hewitt was renamed to the boxing committee for Canada at the 1924 Summer Olympics,[199] where Canadian boxers won a bronze medal.[200] He served as chairman of the AAU of C registration committee for 1926 and 1927. The committee was opposed to professionals and amateurs playing within the same league, and he oversaw the reinstatement of professionals as amateurs.[201] He was appointed to the AAU of C affiliations and alliances committee for 1927 and 1928,[202] which sought to have the CRU as an affiliated member and to promote amateur sport in Canada.[203] He also discussed an AAU of C alliance with the Dominion Football Association, which failed due to disagreements on the mingling of amateurs and professionals in soccer.[204] He later represented the Canadian Olympic Committee at the annual meeting for the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada in 1927.[205]

1928 Winter Olympics edit

 
University of Toronto Graduates at the 1928 Winter Olympics

The Canadian Olympic Committee appointed Hewitt as head of mission for Canada at the 1928 Winter Olympics. He oversaw travel arrangements for the delegation which included figure skating, speed skating, skiing, and ice hockey.[206] Hewitt and the Canadian delegation totalled 47 people, and sailed from Halifax aboard SS Arabic to Cherbourg, then travelled to St. Moritz.[207]

The University of Toronto Graduates as the 1927 Allan Cup champions were chosen to represent Canada in ice hockey, and Hewitt oversaw the team's finances at the Olympics. Conn Smythe coached the team during the OHA season, but refused to go to the Olympics due to disagreements on which players were added to the team by the Canadian Olympic Committee. The Graduates went without Smythe, led by team captain Red Porter.[207]

Hewitt was opposed to the format of the hockey tournament at the Olympics, which saw the Canadian team receive a bye into the second round. He wanted the team to have more games, rather than be idle for a week.[208] Despite the wait to play, the Graduates won all three games by scoring 38 goals and conceding none, to win the gold medal. After an exhibition tour through Austria, Germany, France and England, Hewitt and the Graduates returned to Canada aboard SS Celtic.[209]

Later involvement edit

Hewitt served on the executive of the Canadian Olympic Committee which selected athletes to compete at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[210] In 1930, he was the chairman of the AAU of C publicity committee.[211] He served as chairman of the winter games sub-committee of the Canadian Olympic Committee, which selected the Winnipeg Hockey Club as the 1931 Allan Cup champions, to represent Canada in ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics. The Canadian Olympic Committee chose Claude C. Robinson to oversee finances for the team, while Hewitt was named honorary manager of the Winnipeg Hockey Club which won the gold medal at the Olympics. Hewitt sought for future Canadian national teams at the Olympics to be the reigning Allan Cup champion team, strengthened with six additional players.[212] He remained on the Canadian Olympic Committee executive to select athletes for the 1932 Summer Olympics.[213]

Football career edit

Hewitt was a football referee in the early 1900s, after he played with the Toronto Football Club and the Toronto Wellesleys. He transitioned into managing football and was able to recruit players whom he had become familiar with as a referee.[214] He was an executive with Toronto Football Club, and represented the team in meetings of the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU) in 1902.[215] He became the manager of the team in 1904.[2] He led the team to two wins and two losses during the 1904 season, but were defeated in two consecutive games by the Hamilton Tigers in the ORFU championship.[216]

 
Hewitt and the 1906 Toronto Argonauts

When the Toronto Football Club merged with the Toronto Argonauts in 1905, Hewitt served as manager of the Argonauts until 1907.[2] In the 1905 season, he led the team to two wins, two losses, and second place in the ORFU,[217] then were defeated in the ORFU championship by the Hamilton Tigers.[218] He led the Argonauts to four wins, two losses, and second place in ORFU for the 1906 season,[219] but did not qualify for the playoffs.[220]

Hewitt was vice-president of the ORFU for the 1905 and 1906 seasons,[221][222] and represented the Argonauts at ORFU meetings.[223] He sought for ORFU to have uniform rules of play with the Canadian Rugby Union (CRU), with a preference to use the snap-back system of play used in Ontario.[224] When the CRU did not adopt the snap-back system, his motion was approved for the ORFU to adopt the CRU rules in 1906.[225]

In December 1906, The Gazette reported that a proposal originated from Ottawa for the ORFU and the Quebec Rugby Football Union to merge, which would allow for higher calibre of play and create rivalries.[222] Hewitt and the Argonauts favoured the higher-level league, and sought for all players to have unquestioned amateur status.[226] He helped organize the meeting which established the Inter-provincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) in 1907, which included teams from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Hamilton.[2][14] In the 1907 season, his team won just once in six games and did not qualify for the IRFU playoffs.[227]

Hewitt continued to serve on the ORFU executive, was named a delegate to the CRU meetings in 1911.[228] and was elected secretary of the ORFU in 1913.[229] He was named to the CRU executive in 1912, and helped arrange matches for the senior and junior national championships.[230] He was elected first vice-president of the CRU in 1914, which coincided with annual discussions dealing with rules changes due to the influence American football.[231]

The CRU elected Hewitt president for the 1915 season. He appointed a commission to establish uniforms rules of play at different levels including collegiate and senior.[232] He approached multiple football coaches and sought feedback on best ways to implement standard playing rules.[233] After the CRU did not operate from 1916 to 1918 due to World War I,[234] Hewitt returned as president for the 1919 season.[3][11] Due to disagreements on playing rules in Western Canada, lack of interest in Eastern Canada, and students prioritizing studies instead of intercollegiate sports; national playoffs were not held in 1919.[234]

Hewitt later served as a referee for collegiate and IRFU games c. 1919 – c. 1923,[235][236] and represented referees on the CRU commission to revise and standardize the rules of play.[237]

Horse racing official edit

 
Woodbine Race Course, c. 1909

While reporting on horse racing, Hewitt made frequent visits to Ontario Jockey Club secretary W. P. Fraser, who appointed him patrol judge at Woodbine Race Course in 1905. Hewitt became steward at the Thorncliffe Park Raceway in 1917, then later at the Devonshire Raceway and Kenilworth Park Racetrack in Windsor, and at Stamford Park in Niagara Falls.[238] Hewitt and his son Foster called the first horse race broadcast on radio, the King's Plate in 1925.[34] Hewitt was a steward of the Incorporated Canadian Racing Association for 31 years,[1][239] and was named the chief steward in 1937, after many years as the assistant steward.[2][78]

On June 5, 1937, Hewitt was one of the stewards which ordered a rerun at Thorncliffe Park Raceway, after the race was declared a false start when one horse was missing from its stall and the flag had not been dropped when other horses jumped the barrier. The decision was protested by spectators who stood to lose bets placed on the race, and an angry mob occupied the track for more than two hours in a near-riotous protest.[240]

In 1938, the Incorporated Canadian Racing Association debated actions to take regarding doping in horses.[241] As a steward, he imposed the suspension of trainer and a horse, due to tests on the saliva of a horse.[242]

When the Government of Canada imposed a 5 per cent tax for betting on horse racing in 1941, Hewitt felt it would not affect wagers, and was among a group which pledged that race tracks would co-operate with the government.[243]

In 1950, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed a bill to establish a body to oversee all forms of horse racing in the province, and to issue licenses to all persons involved in the sport. Hewitt was recommended to be on its governing committee by member of parliament, William Houck.[244] The Ontario Racing Association was established in April 1950, and appointed Hewitt as steward.[245] He subsequently served 14 years in the position.[11] He was involved in the investigation and discipline of jockeys and trainers, reforms to riding fees paid to jockeys, establishing medical examination requirements for jockeys and horses, and the implementation of recording races on film to investigate a close finish or foul play during the race.[246]

Personal life edit

Hewitt lived on Roxborough Street at Yonge Street in the Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto, and had a summer house on the Toronto Islands in proximity to Hanlan's Point Stadium.[8][247] On Sundays, he regularly took the family on road trips in their 1912 Pullman automobile to Hamilton or Oakville, and his children sometimes accompanied him in the press box while he reported on sporting events.[8] While on family vacation, Hewitt and his son attended the 1918 World Series in Boston, and were later stricken with the 1918 influenza pandemic.[248] Hewitt's grandson Bill Hewitt (born 1928) followed in the family footsteps with a career as a sports commentator.[1][3][9]

 
Hewitt family grave stone

In June 1948, Hewitt recovered from a three-month skin ailment which doctors thought would affect his heart and end his sporting career.[249] On November 15, 1952, his wife was killed in a head-on automobile collision on U.S. Route 6 east of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The vehicle driven by his son-in-law, Charles A. Massey, skidded on a curve and hit an oncoming car.[250][251] Hewitt had both of his arms broken in the accident.[1]

Hewitt published his memoirs in 1958, titled Down the Stretch: Recollections of a Pioneer Sportsman and Journalist.[252][253]

While boarding a plane with the Winnipeg Maroons in Prague, he had an asthmatic heart attack and was taken to the Střešovice Hospital. He had pneumonia at the time and a previous heart condition.[169] He was transferred to The London Clinic in England on January 19,[170] where he recovered and returned to Canada on January 27.[254] He later joked that his best memory of the incident was that Elizabeth Taylor later took over his suite in the London hospital.[9]

Hewitt was frail in later life, lived with his son Foster, and then at a retirement home in Toronto.[255] Hewitt died on September 8, 1966, in Toronto.[1][3][11] He was interred with his wife in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, plot 3, lot 7.[256][257] He left an estate valued at CA$136,262, equivalent to $1,066,737 in 2020, which included shares in the Toronto Granite Club.[258]

Honours and awards edit

Hewitt was made a life member of the OHA on December 5, 1925.[49][78][259] In 1938, he was a guest of honour at an Ontario Sportsmen's Association banquet, and was given a silver cup in recognition of his 35 years of work with the OHA.[260] At the OHA's golden jubilee in 1939, he was honoured for his work as secretary which helped the association reach its milestone.[261]

 
The Hockey Hall of Fame building which also hosts the IIHF Hall of Fame

In October 1945, Hewitt was chosen for induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, among the six original members of the builder category.[166] The Hockey Hall of Fame and the International Hockey Hall of Fame both list his year of induction as 1947.[49][262] At the 1948 CAHA general meeting, Hewitt was presented with a scroll from the Hockey Hall of Fame in recognition of his induction.[263]

Hewitt received the OHA Gold Stick Award in 1947, and was among the inaugural group recognized by the highest award given by the OHA for contributions to hockey.[264] He received a citation from Tommy Lockhart of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States in 1950, for service to hockey in the USA where he assisted with setting up amateur leagues.[265] On December 8, 1953, Hewitt was the guest of honour at a testimonial dinner attended by 500 sportsmen from Canada and the United States, to celebrate his 50th anniversary as secretary of the OHA.[2][14] In 1955, the OHA established an endowment at the Hospital for Sick Children, with a bed named Hewitt and his wife.[266]

At the general meeting in 1960, Hewitt was made a life member of the CAHA.[267] He was given a standing ovation when he retired at the general meeting in 1961, and the CAHA stated it would later present Hewitt with a painting of his choice.[9] In 1966, Hewitt was the guest of honour at a second testimonial dinner to recognize his OHA career, when he was named honorary life secretary of the OHA.[255] In May 1966, he received a sports citation from the Government of Ontario in recognition of his sporting career.[268]

Hewitt was posthumously recognized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) for contributions to the international game with induction into the builder category of the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1998.[269]

Legacy and reputation edit

 
The Dudley Hewitt Cup

Hewitt had multiple ice hockey trophies named for him, including the W. A. Hewitt Trophy for the winner of the playoffs series between the senior A-level champions of the OHA and the Northern Ontario Hockey Association,[270] the W. A. Hewitt Trophy awarded to the senior B-level champion of the OHA,[271] and the W. A. Hewitt Trophy awarded to the bantam B-level finalists in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association.[272] Hewitt and George Dudley are the namesakes of the Dudley Hewitt Cup. It was first awarded by the Canadian Junior Hockey League in 1971, to the Central Canada Junior A champion team who moves on to the national Centennial Cup competition.[273][274][275]

The origins of hockey committee reported that the first nets on hockey goalposts were introduced during a game in Montreal by Hewitt, who was then the sporting editor of the Montreal Herald. In the same report, Hewitt stated that that idea came from fellow journalist Francis Nelson, who conceived the nets while on a visit to Australia. Hewitt also stated that nets might have been used in the OHA sooner than in Montreal.[276] Despite Hewitt giving credit to Nelson, reports persisted that credited Hewitt with introducing nets, including his obituary in The Toronto Daily Star.[34][49][192]

James T. Sutherland stated that the OHA was fortunate to have Hewitt as its secretary, and "owe[d] most of its success" to him.[277] Sutherland referred to Hewitt as a "miracle man of hockey who [did] more than anyone to guide the game through its scant and lean years".[78] Journalist Scott Young credited Hewitt for being a forward thinker, and in tune with George Dudley in reversing the ban on professional coaches in the OHA.[278]

The Kingston Whig-Standard columnist Mike Rodden wrote that Hewitt was, "a solid man who followed a chosen star of destiny" as an ice hockey executive, and "a kindly man but he was so dedicated to the cause that he tolerated no nonsense".[192] The Canadian Press writer Wilfred Gruson described Hewitt as, "one of the most respected authorities in the Dominion on hockey and horse racing", and that Hewitt was unequalled "in his knowledge of the complexities of [hockey]".[249] The Canadian Press sports editor Jack Sullivan wrote, "most almost to a fault, [Hewitt] had remained behind the scenes in various administrative capacities while nursing these sports to their present status".[14]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Multiple sources and newspaper headlines referred to him as "Billy Hewitt", in addition to his common name, W. A. Hewitt.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
  2. ^ Hewitt wrote in his memoirs that he guarded his middle name as a secret, and that his namesake was parliamentarian and educator Abraham Code.[10]
  3. ^ Several newspapers reported his middle name to be "Arthur",[1][7] as did the autobiography of Foster Hewitt.[8] One source listed Hewitt's middle name "Archibald",[11] whereas "Abraham" was listed on his birth certificate,[12] and his marriage license.[13]
  4. ^ The Miller Act was named for Henry Morton Miller, the member of parliament for Grey South, who introduced to legislation regulate gambling in horse racing.[44]

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  5. ^ Young, Scott (1989), p. 64
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hewitt, billy, hewitt, redirects, here, grandson, bill, hewitt, sportscaster, other, people, bill, hewitt, william, abraham, hewitt, 1875, september, 1966, canadian, sports, executive, journalist, also, widely, known, billy, hewitt, secretary, ontario, hockey,. Billy Hewitt redirects here For his grandson see Bill Hewitt sportscaster For other people see Bill Hewitt William Abraham Hewitt May 15 1875 September 8 1966 was a Canadian sports executive and journalist also widely known as Billy Hewitt a He was secretary of the Ontario Hockey Association OHA from 1903 to 1966 and sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star from 1900 to 1931 He promoted the establishment of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association CAHA then served as its secretary treasurer from 1915 to 1919 registrar from 1921 to 1925 registrar treasurer from 1925 to 1961 and a trustee of the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup Hewitt standardized player registrations in Canada was a committee member to discuss professional amateur agreements with the National Hockey League and negotiated working agreements with amateur hockey governing bodies in the United States He oversaw referees within the OHA and negotiated common rules of play for amateur and professional leagues as chairman of the CAHA rules committee After retiring from journalism he was the managing director of Maple Leaf Gardens from 1931 to 1948 and chairman of the committee to select the inaugural members of the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945 W A HewittBornWilliam Abraham Hewitt 1875 05 15 May 15 1875Cobourg Ontario CanadaDiedSeptember 8 1966 1966 09 08 aged 91 Toronto Ontario CanadaResting placeMount Pleasant Cemetery TorontoKnown forCanadian Amateur Hockey Association registrar treasurerOntario Hockey Association secretaryToronto Daily Star sports editorMaple Leaf Gardens managing directorChildren2 including Foster Hewitt son FamilyBill Hewitt grandson AwardsHockey Hall of FameIIHF Hall of FameInternational Hockey Hall of FameHonoursDudley Hewitt Cup Hewitt was a member of the Canadian Olympic Committee from 1920 to 1932 helped select athletes for the Summer and Winter Olympics and was the head of mission for Canada at the 1928 Winter Olympics He served as the financial manager for the Canada men s national ice hockey team which won Olympic gold medals in 1920 1924 and 1928 while sending reports on the Olympic Games to Canadian newspapers He introduced the CAHA rules of play to the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace in 1920 and refereed the first game played in the history of ice hockey at the Olympic Games He also served on several committees for the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada and including chairman of the registration committee which oversaw the reinstatement of professionals as amateurs In Canadian football Hewitt managed the Toronto Argonauts from 1905 to 1907 served as vice president of the Ontario Rugby Football Union and helped organize the meeting which established the Inter provincial Rugby Football Union in 1907 He was president of the Canadian Rugby Union from 1915 to 1919 sought to implement uniform rules of play across Canada and was a referee for collegiate and inter provincial games In horse racing Hewitt was a patrol judge at Woodbine Race Course was a steward of the Incorporated Canadian Racing Association for 31 years then a steward of the Ontario Racing Association for 14 years Hewitt was the father of radio sports announcer Foster Hewitt and the grandfather of television sports commentator Bill Hewitt Hewitt guided his son into radio and together they called the 1925 King s Plate the first horse race to be broadcast on radio Later in life Hewitt published his memoirs had two arms broken in a car accident that killed his wife and a heart attack while on a tour of Czechoslovakia with the Winnipeg Maroons He was a life member of both the OHA and the CAHA the guest of honour at two testimonial dinners and multiple ice hockey trophies were named for him including the Dudley Hewitt Cup He was inducted into the builder category of the Hockey Hall of Fame the International Hockey Hall of Fame and the IIHF Hall of Fame Contents 1 Early life and family 2 Journalism career 2 1 Toronto News 2 2 Montreal Herald 2 3 Toronto Daily Star 3 Ontario Hockey Association 3 1 Referees and playing rules 3 2 Professionalism and arena contracts 3 3 Later years and retirement 4 Canadian Amateur Hockey Association 4 1 Secretary 1915 to 1919 4 2 Registrar 1921 to 1925 4 3 Registrar treasurer 1925 to 1961 4 3 1 Player registrations 4 3 2 Allan Cup competition 4 3 3 Professional amateur agreements 4 3 4 International relations 4 3 5 Playing rules committee 4 3 6 Hockey s history and hall of fame 4 3 7 Later years and retirement 5 Olympics and athletics executive 5 1 1920 Summer Olympics 5 2 1924 Winter Olympics 5 3 1924 to 1928 5 4 1928 Winter Olympics 5 5 Later involvement 6 Football career 7 Horse racing official 8 Personal life 9 Honours and awards 10 Legacy and reputation 11 Notes 12 References 13 SourcesEarly life and family editWilliam Abraham b c Hewitt was born on May 15 1875 in Cobourg Ontario the son of a clothing merchant 2 12 14 His parents James Thomas Hewitt and Sarah Hopkins had Irish Canadian heritage 12 Hewitt s mother was a schoolteacher born in Northern Ireland and his father was a salesman born in Canada 10 The family relocated to Toronto circa 1879 when Hewitt was age 4 2 10 Hewitt s father worked as an inspector on horse drawn carriages in Toronto 15 then died when Hewitt was age 8 10 nbsp Jarvis Collegiate Institute As a youth Hewitt played team sports sparingly due to his small stature 14 and learned the sport of boxing from his brothers 16 At age 12 he pitched batting practice to professional baseball players at Sunlight Park and later played baseball for the Victorias at Jesse Ketchum Park 17 His first job was as a newspaper boy for the Toronto Empire as he and his brothers earned money for the family after their father died 18 Hewitt s subsequent jobs as a youth included sorting and polishing apples a messenger at a law office a labourer at the Eckhardt Casket Company and as a stock boy at a grocery store owned by his uncle 19 Hewitt completed his secondary school education at Jarvis Collegiate Institute 20 Hewitt was a member of the Anglican Church of Canada and married Flora Morrison Foster on October 2 1897 at the Church of the Holy Trinity 13 21 They met while singing in the church choir and she was the daughter of a local hardware merchant 21 They had one daughter Audrey born 1898 and one son Foster Hewitt born 1902 21 22 Journalism career editToronto News edit nbsp William Lyon Mackenzie King c 1891 Hewitt began working in newspapers at age 14 9 and earned C 4 per week as a copy boy with the Toronto News 2 14 The paper s city editor left Hewitt in charge one afternoon with instructions to fire a young reporter named William Lyon Mackenzie King if he showed up Hewitt sat at the editor s desk when King showed up a few minutes later and resigned before Hewitt could tell him he was fired Later in life Hewitt regretted the missed opportunity to fire the future prime minister of Canada 23 At age 15 Hewitt began his journalism career writing for the Toronto News with a salary of 10 per week His first assignment was reporting on the strapping of a convicted sex offender at the Toronto Central Prison 24 He later reported on baseball and lacrosse 22 events at Massey Hall and regularly covered the police and court beat in Toronto 25 In 1894 Hewitt reported on his first Queen s Plate for horse racing 26 He became the sports editor of the Toronto News at age 20 and gathered his information through multiple contacts he made in the sports world 27 His boss at the Toronto News H C Hocken gave Hewitt a pay raise to 20 per week as the sports editor 28 During the late 1890s Hewitt and business partners arranged day trips by train for spectators to attend the Fort Erie Race Track and the Kenilworth Racetrack in Buffalo New York 26 In addition to sports Hewitt covered Toronto City Council meetings and reported on the opening of Toronto City Hall in 1899 29 He was also the press agent for the Grand Opera House during the late 1890s 30 Montreal Herald edit nbsp Joseph E Atkinson Publisher Joseph E Atkinson convinced Hewitt to transfer to the Montreal Herald as the sports editor with a starting salary of 25 per week and the promise to cover Hewitt s travel expenses to and from Montreal on weekends and future advancement if the paper prospered 31 He accepted the offer and learned that there was a bitter rivalry between the owners of the Montreal Herald and the Montreal Star He subsequently declined a twofold pay raise to join the Montreal Star due to his loyalty to Atkinson 32 Hewitt wrote in his memoirs that when he introduced nets to hockey goalposts in 1899 it increased the tension between the Montreal newspapers and that the idea was ridiculed by the Montreal Star and the Montreal Gazette Hewitt arranged for the nets to be used in a local game between the Montreal Victorias and the Montreal Shamrocks after taking inspiration from fellow journalist Francis Nelson to resolve disputed goals 33 Toronto Daily Star edit nbsp The Toronto Daily Star building c 1914 Hewitt returned to Toronto and was the sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star from 1900 to 1931 11 34 His transition from Toronto to Montreal and return took less than three months when Atkinson purchased the Toronto Daily Star and Hewitt followed him to Toronto in January 1900 35 Hewitt sought for his sports staff to write articles which were accurate brief and included the result of the game in the first paragraph such that it was easier to shorten the article if more page space was sold for newspaper advertising 36 As the sports editor his favourite topics were ice hockey and Canadian football 37 He also regularly covered baseball boxing horse racing and lacrosse 37 38 in addition to sports played by the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union 39 He also attended and wrote about the July 4 1919 boxing match when Jack Dempsey won the heavyweight title from Jess Willard 2 During the early 1900s Hewitt reported on the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team in the International League and travelled with the team to spring training and some road games 40 Also during the early 1900s Hewitt shared in a business venture which operated a baseball World Series scoreboard at several theatres in Toronto The scoreboard lights for hits baserunners and game play relayed by a telegrapher to provide patrons with an in theatre recreated version of a live baseball game Due to the increasing costs of wire services and renting the buildings the boards were later used outside of the Toronto Daily Star building instead 41 In 1901 Hewitt began publishing horse racing results from tracks in the United States in addition to results from tracks in Ontario 26 In 1910 he was charged with breach of racing laws for printing publishing and selling a daily racing record 42 He pleaded not guilty while sale of the paper stopped 42 and was subsequently fined 100 for violation of the Miller Act 43 d In 1921 he was charged with advertising publishing exhibiting and selling a horse racing form in Toronto which was alleged to assist in placing wagers on races 45 Fellow journalist Francis Nelson argued that the form assisted sports editors in reporting the horse s record that it was also useful to horse breeders and that it did not specialize in betting any more than newspapers 45 Hewitt was later convicted and fined 25 despite that the judge stated Hewitt had not knowingly broken any law 46 47 nbsp Foster Hewitt Hewitt was interested in connecting newspapers to radio broadcasts and took his son Foster to a radio convention at the General Motors Building in 1921 48 He then guided his son into a career in radio as a more popular medium for sport 2 49 In October 1931 Hewitt resigned as sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star and was succeeded by Lou Marsh his assistant of 26 years 7 50 During his journalism career Hewitt preferred to write his stories by hand and never used a typewriter 51 Upon his retirement The Kingston Whig Standard described Hewitt as a most prolific writer a man with a keen knowledge of all sports no matter what they are and above all at all times one of the fairest writers newspaperdom ever knew 50 Ontario Hockey Association editHewitt became involved in ice hockey as a player and on ice official and reported on the game as a journalist 52 He was the representative for the Toronto Wellingtons and the Toronto St George s teams at meetings of the Ontario Hockey Association OHA during the late 1890s At the urging of several clubs in Toronto Hewitt was convinced to stand for election to the OHA executive 53 He was elected secretary of the OHA on December 8 1903 2 to succeed fellow journalist William Ashbury Buchanan 54 As secretary Hewitt received an honorarium for expenses which was increased annually from 200 as of 1903 22 He was chairman of the OHA schedule committee 55 and sat on sub committees to divide teams into groups for league play and review registrations by players requesting to change teams 56 nbsp Cyclone Taylor During the early 1900s Hewitt John Ross Robertson and the OHA president at the time sat on a standing committee to review protests and suspensions Hewitt wrote in his memoirs that the committee was jokingly known as the Three White Czars because of their power to exile offenders to hockey s Siberia 57 During the 1904 05 season the OHA declined a request by Cyclone Taylor to transfer from Listowel to Thessalon with the decision being relayed by Hewitt 58 Taylor recalled the incident in his autobiography and wrote that Hewitt telephoned him with an invitation to play for the Toronto Marlboros senior team Taylor declined the offer since he wanted to stay at home where he had a job and stated that Hewitt responded If you won t play for the Marlies you won t play anywhere 58 Seventy years later Taylor said that he never forgave Hewitt for the season s suspension 58 Hewitt represented the OHA executive committee during the playoffs to witness the games any incidents that the executive may have to deal with and to collect the OHA s share of the gate receipts 59 During a playoffs game in Smiths Falls in 1905 Hewitt arrived late when he train was delayed in a snowfall then rink management refused to handover the gate receipts to Hewitt when the game did not complete due to on ice incidents The next day Hewitt met with James Whitney the premier of Ontario who ordered the local clerk to hand over the money promptly 59 Referees and playing rules edit nbsp Hewitt c 1920 As the secretary Hewitt was the de facto referee in chief of the OHA 60 He scheduled the referees for playoffs games in Ontario 61 and was empowered to appoint referees for league games as of 1924 instead of the two teams agreeing on a referee 62 He spoke annually at referee meetings to review interpretations of new and existing rules of play and sought consistency and more strict enforcement of the rules when dealing with dissent and physical play 63 In 1951 he supported the implementation of monetary fines for players who verbally abused on ice officials 64 Professionalism and arena contracts edit In 1924 the OHA voted to keep its ban on professional coaches in amateur hockey 62 When Queen s University at Kingston hired a full time athletic director Hewitt felt that the OHA should allow the director s involvement with the hockey team despite him being a paid professional Hewitt proposed an amendment to the constitution which would allow the executive to scrutinize any coach and decide on the registration The amendment was rejected by delegates who remained against any professionals in the OHA 65 Two years later Hewitt brought up the issue again and argued that the original intention of this rule was to control the professional coach not exterminate him 66 His constitutional amendment was subsequently approved in the late 1920s 66 When the OHA contract with Arena Gardens was up for renewal in the late 1920s some executives preferred the Ravina Gardens where teams could get 50 per cent of the gate receipts compared to only 35 per cent of the gate receipts at the Arena Gardens Hewitt argued that 35 per cent of a larger arena in an established part of the city would be more profitable than 50 per cent of a smaller arena under construction in a newer part of the city Hewitt promised to negotiate a better deal in exchange for the contract with Arena Gardens to be renewed on a year by year basis 67 Hewitt subsequently became an influence on Conn Smythe s decision to build Maple Leaf Gardens 49 nbsp Maple Leaf Gardens Hewitt retired from journalism and became the managing director of Maple Leaf Gardens on October 17 1931 and oversaw all events other than hockey 7 68 The OHA signed multiple five year contracts with the Gardens in which all Toronto based teams in the OHA played home games at the arena except for the University of Toronto teams 69 70 He remained managing director of the Gardens until 1948 and attended every professional and amateur hockey game at the arena during his tenure 14 In 1933 Frank J Selke testified in court that the Toronto Marlboros had a proposed agreement to guarantee its finances by the Toronto Maple Leafs The agreement went unsigned when Hewitt voiced opposition to the financial support of amateur teams by professional teams 71 Despite concerns from some that Hewitt was connected to professional hockey in his position at Maple Leaf Gardens the OHA executive upheld his eligibility to be the secretary since he had no say into the management of the Toronto Maple Leafs 72 Later years and retirement edit During World War II Hewitt oversaw assistance by the OHA to charities in Toronto which raised funds to support the war effort including the local Canadian Red Cross 73 In January 1948 the OHA hired George Panter as an assistant secretary to reduce the workload on Hewitt then later made Panter its business manager to oversee day to day operations Hewitt retained his office at Maple Leaf Gardens where he kept the OHA s records despite that a new office was opened across the road in a Canadian Bank of Commerce building Bill Hanley became the business manager in 1951 and Hewitt s role gradually decreased 74 The OHA established a permanent referee in chief position in 1952 and lessened the workload on Hewitt 60 Hewitt was acclaimed as secretary of the OHA for the 1965 66 season his final election to the position 75 He retired in May 1966 and the OHA transferred the secretary s duties to Bill Hanley and renamed his position from business manager to secretary manager 76 77 Canadian Amateur Hockey Association editAs the sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star Hewitt promoted the proposal by the Manitoba Hockey Commission to establish a national body to govern amateur hockey 78 The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association CAHA was founded on December 4 1914 then began organizing national playoffs for the Allan Cup awarded to the champion of senior ice hockey and drafted player eligibility and registration rules 79 Secretary 1915 to 1919 edit nbsp J F Paxton When OHA president James T Sutherland was elected president of the CAHA in December 1915 he appointed Hewitt as the CAHA secretary 80 Sutherland then served in Europe with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I and Hewitt worked alongside OHA executive J F Paxton to keep the CAHA functional 81 82 Hewitt conducted business as needed by mail in votes without holding annual elections or meetings due to prohibitive costs during war time austerity measures 82 83 He assisted Allan Cup trustees to schedule national playoffs for the trophy 84 and collaborated with Saskatchewan Amateur Hockey Association secretary W C Bettschen on drafting uniform rules for the competition 85 The Memorial Cup was established for the junior ice hockey championship of the CAHA as of 1919 86 Hewitt assisted with scheduling its playoffs games 87 and was subsequently named one of the cup s trustees 49 In March 1919 the CAHA held its first annual meeting after a four year hiatus and adopted uniform rules for Allan Cup competition and sought to form an alliance with senior hockey in the United States At the same meeting Hewitt was succeeded as CAHA secretary by W C Bettschen 88 In October 1919 Hewitt and Paxton reached an agreement with the International Skating Union of the United States to govern and resume international games which halted during the war 89 Registrar 1921 to 1925 edit In October 1921 the CAHA established a national registration committee and named Hewitt its registrar The committee included the registrar the sitting president and two members each from Eastern and Western Canada and aimed to investigate all registrations to exclude professionals and reduce the number of players transferring teams solely for hockey instead of employment 90 The CAHA also wanted to eliminate Canadian players going to American based teams for one season then returning 91 Hewitt then implemented standard registration and transfer forms completed in triplicate including copies for the player s team the local governing body and the CAHA registrar 92 He also served as the CAHA s alternate representative to the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada AAU of C the governing body for amateur sports in Canada 93 In 1922 the CAHA accepted the Hamilton B Wills Trophy as the senior hockey championship of North America which saw the Allan Cup champion challenge the United States Amateur Hockey Association USAHA champion in a playoffs series Hewitt was named one of the cup s trustees and assisted in scheduling the international games 94 95 In 1923 Hewitt and J F Paxton collaborated to negotiate an agreement to govern the migration of senior hockey players to and from the USAHA 95 and a proposal for the CAHA to assume control of the Allan Cup 92 The trustees of the Allan Cup remained in control of the trophy but agreed that proceeds from gate receipts for the Allan Cup playoffs would be held in trust and expended as requested by the CAHA 95 Registrar treasurer 1925 to 1961 edit nbsp The George Richardson Memorial Trophy The CAHA appointed Hewitt to the newly created registrar treasurer position in March 1925 adding financial oversight to his duties in addition to the registration committee 96 In 1929 Hewitt as the registrar treasurer and Fred Marples as the secretary were made permanent positions on the CAHA executive committee 97 98 When the George Richardson Memorial Trophy was established the junior hockey champion of Eastern Canada in 1932 Hewitt was made one of its trustees 99 In 1937 the CAHA made the registrar treasurer and secretary positions non permanent members of the executive to be filled by appointment 100 with Hewitt re appointed to be the registrar treasurer 101 In 1938 the CAHA removed voting power from the registrar treasurer and secretary and positions making the positions administrative only 102 In April 1939 Hewitt was one of several guest speakers at the CAHA s silver jubilee and gave introductions for each 11 of the 13 past presidents in attendance 103 Hewitt was chairman of the CAHA finance committee during World War II He oversaw monetary gifts to the Government of Canada and the purchase of victory bonds to help with the war effort and grants towards the development of minor ice hockey 104 105 CAHA president Frank Sargent chose to host the Memorial Cup finals at Maple Leaf Gardens during the war to generate the greatest profit to reinvest into hockey in Canada 106 Hewitt noted that Maple Leafs Gardens attracted large crowds to junior hockey compared to Winnipeg Regina and Edmonton which were hotbeds for junior hockey in Western Canada but their rinks had lesser spectator capacity 107 Player registrations edit In 1925 the CAHA and OHA were determined to stop players from moving about the country solely for hockey After the CAHA set its residency deadline to be May 15 instead of August 1 Hewitt advised that all players must establish bona fide residency to play within the CAHA 96 108 The CAHA further tightened its residency deadline to January 1 as of the 1932 33 season 109 During the 1930s the CAHA was faced with players returning from professional tryouts without signing a contract The AAU of C had a policy that such players would be classified as professional and ineligible for amateur play in the same season 109 110 Since that policy had not been enforced before CAHA president Jack Hamilton ruled that those players cards would be cancelled without penalty to the team 110 When the AAU of C ruled in 1933 that anyone who had not played professional hockey in three years could apply for reinstatement as an amateur Hewitt interpreted that the intent was to allow former professionals who were not undesirables to return to amateur hockey 111 nbsp E A Gilroy In an effort to eliminate the hockey tourist in 1934 CAHA president E A Gilroy decreed that no player would be permitted to transfer between branches of the CAHA after January 1 without residency being established 112 Hewitt and the registration committee subsequently allowed transfers after January 1 only for those playing on college teams or legitimate relocation for employment 113 Hewitt announced a rule change as of the 1935 36 season whereby any amateur player who wanted to try out for a professional team could seek approval to do so by December 1 and could then return to amateur hockey providing that no contract was signed nor any money was received 114 In 1940 the CAHA changed its definition of an amateur to be any player not playing organized professional hockey 115 Hewitt explained that the change prevented a professional club from using a player for a few games before returning him to amateur hockey and that a professional player still needed to have one year s absence from organized hockey to be reinstated as an amateur 115 During World War II Hewitt and the registration committee loosened player transfer and replacement rules when wartime enlistments led to player shortages 116 CAHA president George Dudley defended the decision to reinstate former professionals as amateurs to prevent a shortage of player despite it strengthening Royal Canadian Air Force teams compared to club teams 117 After the war Hewitt and the CAHA chose to allow discharged members of the Canadian Armed Forces to join any club in the CAHA without requirement to meet existing residency or transfer rules 118 Hewitt acknowledged that money had changed hands when players were released from one branch to another and believed that a club who spent money to develop a player was entitled to some remuneration such as a transfer fee After the war he and the CAHA discussed implementing a draft system for compulsory payments to release a player He argued that a plan would be imminent and that it would prevent arguments when players changed teams 119 Allan Cup competition edit nbsp The Allan Cup trophy In November 1926 Allan Cup trustee William Northey suggested that the trophy be withdrawn unless the teams competing for it followed the amateur code more strictly Hewitt felt that the sole point of contention was the travel allowance given by the CAHA to teams travelling to play in Allan Cup games The CAHA sought a new financial deal with the trustees since it was financially dependent on the proceeds from Allan Cup gate receipts 120 H Montagu Allan agreed to donate the Allan Cup outright to the CAHA and control of the Allan Cup along with a surplus of 20 700 was formally transferred to the CAHA in a ceremony at the Chateau Laurier on March 26 1928 121 Hewitt was subsequently named a trustee of the Allan Cup in 1929 98 Professional amateur agreements edit nbsp Frank Calder Hewitt and CAHA past president W A Fry attended the 1930 National Hockey League NHL general meeting to seek a better working agreement The CAHA suggested that players remain as amateurs for one season after graduating from junior hockey and in return the CAHA would permit its amateurs to tryout and practice with professional teams 122 Hewitt subsequently met multiple times with NHL president Frank Calder who saw merit in Hewitt s request to keep players in amateur hockey and continued to discuss a professional amateur agreement 123 The NHL terminated the professional amateur agreement in 1938 when a player suspended from the NHL was allowed to register as an amateur in Ottawa Hewitt sat on the committee to reach a new agreement 124 The CAHA agreed to decline overseas transfers for players on NHL reserve lists and the NHL agreed not to sign junior aged players without consent Both bodies agreed to use the same playing rules and recognized each other s suspensions 125 In 1942 Hewitt met with NHL to seek financial compensation on behalf of teams in Ontario for the loss of amateur players who turned professional 126 The CAHA agreed to defer the NHL s development payments to amateur teams until the players lost to wartime enlistments had returned to professional hockey 127 The professional amateur agreement was renegotiated and the NHL agreed to pay a flat rate of 500 to the CAHA 128 Hewitt was part of the negotiating committee in 1952 where the CAHA and NHL agreed to a January 15 deadline for professional teams to call up players from the CAHA s Major Series of senior hockey The agreement gave the NHL a source of emergency replacement players and prevented teams in Canada from losing players during the Alexander Cup playoffs 129 In 1953 the NHL terminated the professional amateur agreement when it the CAHA restricted the movement of junior aged players from Western Canada to NHL sponsored teams in Eastern Canada 130 Junior teams in Western Canada wanted to keep their best players and sought greater financial compensation Hewitt participated in negotiations to reach a new agreement in 1954 and felt that having an agreement with the professionals was the greatest thing this organization has ever had and that it would be a crime to lose it 131 The CAHA agreed to distribute playoffs proceeds proportional to the profit on a series by series basis but rejected the request for transfers from west to east 132 International relations edit nbsp William S Haddock The CAHA cancelled its alliance with the USAHA in 1925 after Hewitt had three months of unsuccessful negotiations regarding of player transfers 96 The USAHA subsequently disbanded following the 1924 25 season 133 The CAHA resumed international playoffs for senior hockey when Hewitt arranged a season between the 1934 Allan Cup champion Moncton Hawks and the Detroit White Stars 134 He then travelled to the United States to locate the Hamilton B Wills Trophy that had not been competed for since 1925 He believed the trophy to be in the possession of William S Haddock who was president of the USAHA when it folded 135 The Great Britain national men s team defeated Canada and won the gold medal in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics in which Jimmy Foster and Alex Archer played for Great Britain while under suspension by the CAHA 136 The relationship between the CAHA and the British Ice Hockey Association BIHA deteriorated and the CAHA banned all of its players from applying for transfers to Great Britain until an agreement was reached Hewitt was part of the committee to negotiate peace with the BIHA 137 A new agreement was announced on June 27 1936 where the BIHA agreed to the CAHA approving player transfers and that all players suspended by the CAHA would not play in Great Britain 138 In April 1937 Hewitt arranged an international tournament hosted in Toronto among the Allan Cup and Memorial Cup champions of the CAHA the Eastern Amateur Hockey League EAHL and the English National League The tournament coincided with national teams playing at the 1937 Ice Hockey World Championships held at the same time in England 139 The world s amateur club team title was contested by the Wembley Lions the Hershey Bears the Sudbury Tigers and the Winnipeg Monarchs 140 In August 1937 Hewitt was part of a CAHA delegation which reached a working agreement with the EAHL that ended wholesale roster moves from Canada to the United States and allowed for one player per Canadian team to be imported to the league with additional transfers possible if approved by the CAHA 141 The CAHA and the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States collaborated to establish the International Ice Hockey Association in 1940 as a governing body for international hockey due to inactivity of the Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace LIHG during World War II 142 Hewitt served as one of the CAHA delegates to meetings of the International Ice Hockey Association 143 Playing rules committee edit In 1923 Hewitt sought to standardize the weight of the hockey puck since nothing was mentioned in the playing rules of hockey at the time He met with rubber manufacturers and had 11 different types of pucks tested and weighed before a rule was implemented for a puck to weigh 5 5 6 ounces 160 170 g 144 The CAHA appointed Hewitt to its rules committee in 1924 with the intent of standardizing the rules across Canada and to liaise with professional leagues 93 He served as chairman of the CAHA rules committee until the 1950s and negotiated to have common rules for amateur and professional leagues 145 At the 1925 CAHA general meeting Hewitt reported on establishing uniform rules with professional leagues and indicated that Frank Calder of the NHL and E L Richardson of the Western Canada Hockey League were willing to co operate whereas Frank Patrick of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association showed no interest 146 Later in the same year the CAHA rules committee was empowered to align amateur rules with the professional rules Rules changes included elimination of body checking in the centre ice area between the blue lines limiting the number of substitutes from three to two increasing the distance from the end of the rink to the blues lines 20 40 feet 6 1 12 2 m and allowing goaltenders to throw the puck behind their net instead of having to skate away with it 147 nbsp Diagram of an ice hockey rink and its markings The centre ice red line was introduced to the hockey rink in the 1943 44 season Hewitt continued to meet with Frank Calder in the 1920s and 1930s to discuss uniform rules of play and consistent ice rink markings and dimensions 148 Calder and the NHL pushed for the CAHA to adopt the professional rules which he felt were supported by spectators and increased tickets sales in the NHL 123 In 1929 the CAHA gave referees more powers to penalize infractions and to deter abusive language Hewitt supported a rule change which allowed a referee to give a three minute penalty to a player throwing a stick to prevent a goal scoring opportunity 149 In 1932 Hewitt toured Western Canada attending referee schools to have uniform interpretation of the rules of play 150 In 1938 Hewitt and the NHL agreed to implement a delay of game penalty for players holding the puck against the boards unless being challenged by an opposing player and to widen the blue lines to reduce the number of offside infractions 151 In 1941 the CAHA permitted its member associations to choose between utilizing a system with two referees and no linesmen during a game or to have a three official system with one referee and two linesmen 152 In 1943 the NHL agreed to a recommendation by the CAHA rules committee to implement a centre ice red line to allow for longer passes by the defensive team without being ruled offside 105 153 The change allowed the defending team to pass the puck to out of their own zone up to the red line instead of being required to skate over the nearest blue line then pass the puck forward 154 The CAHA dissolved its rules committee in 1945 then resumed it in 1946 with Hewitt as chairman 155 In 1947 the committee adopted the NHL s rules for offside and icing in 1947 156 In 1948 Hewitt represented the CAHA in joint meetings with the NHL the American Hockey League and the United States Hockey League to standardize playing rules in amateur hockey and multiple tiers of professional hockey 157 In 1954 Hewitt favoured tightening the interpretation of rules by on ice officials as a means to deter elbowing high sticking and boarding infractions 158 He was named honorary chairman of the CAHA rules committee in 1959 159 Hockey s history and hall of fame edit nbsp James T Sutherland In 1941 the CAHA appointed a committee to write a history of hockey in Canada led by James T Sutherland including Hewitt and Quebec hockey executive George Slater 152 160 In 1943 the committee concluded that hockey had been played in Canada since 1855 and that Kingston and Halifax had equal claims to be the birthplace of hockey since both cities hosted games played by the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment The report also stated that Kingston had the first recognized hockey league in 1885 which merged into the OHA in 1890 161 A delegation from Kingston then went to the CAHA general meeting in 1943 and was endorsed to establish a Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston 160 In September 1943 Hewitt was named to the board of directors for selecting inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame and sought recommendations by sportswriters from The Canadian Press and the Associated Press 162 He was named chairman and secretary of the board of governors in 1944 163 and the CAHA agreed to donate 25 per cent of its profits from the 1945 46 season to help erect a building for the hall of fame 164 In May 1945 Hewitt announced that nine players were the first group of inductees into the Hockey Hall of Fame 165 In October 1945 a special committee chosen by the board of governors named six builders of hockey to be added to the inaugural group of inductees 166 The Hockey Hall of Fame committee was incorporated in 1948 and elected an additional seven to its board of governors to give representation to a broader area 167 Hewitt remained on the board of governors until 1950 168 By September 1955 a building for the hall of fame had not been constructed in Kingston when a group of businessmen from Toronto were given approval for a hall of fame building which opened at Exhibition Place in Toronto in 1961 A separate International Hockey Hall of Fame later opened in Kingston in 1965 160 Later years and retirement edit Hewitt accompanied the Winnipeg Maroons as the CAHA representative on an exhibition tour of Czechoslovakia from December 1960 to January 1961 169 170 He retired as the registrar treasurer at age 86 on May 23 1961 9 and was succeeded by Gordon Juckes 171 On May 18 1964 Hewitt cut the ceremonial ribbon at the Hockey Hall of Fame to unveil CAHA plaques which commemorated the association s 50th anniversary 172 Olympics and athletics executive editDuring World War I Hewitt served on the executive of the Sportsmen s Patriotic Association which sought to provide sporting equipment to soldiers in the Canadian Expeditionary Force 173 After the war he sat on the AAU of C committee for the postwar reconstruction of sports 174 1920 Summer Olympics edit nbsp Hewitt and the Winnipeg Falcons at the 1920 Summer Olympics The CAHA chose the Winnipeg Falcons as the 1920 Allan Cup champions to represent the Canada men s national team in ice hockey at the 1920 Summer Olympics instead of forming a national all star team on short notice 175 34 Hewitt represented the Canadian Olympic Committee and oversaw finances for the Falcons and reported on the Olympic Games for Canadian newspapers 176 177 He and his wife were a father and mother figure to the Falcons 178 and sailed with them aboard SS Melita from Saint John to Liverpool then onto Antwerp 175 Hewitt introduced the CAHA rules of play to the LIHG at the Olympics 179 Writer Andrew Podnieks described Hewitt s interpretation of the rules as competitive yet gentlemanly and that the rules of play were accepted for Olympic hockey 180 Hewitt refereed the first game played in the history of ice hockey at the Olympic Games an 8 0 win by the Sweden men s national team versus the Belgium men s national team on April 23 1920 181 Hewitt felt that the Sweden team was physically rough by Canadian standards since they knocked down the opposing player before taking the puck After he stopped the game and asked if anyone on the team spoke English the goaltender for Sweden briefly spoke with Hewitt then conferred with his teammates but they did not understand Hewitt s instructions on the Canadian style of play 182 The Falcons and the Hewitts returned home aboard SS Grampian from Le Havre to Quebec City 183 The Falcons honoured Hewitt and his wife at a private dinner and presented them with a silver cup inscribed with the number 13 for the number of people who made the trip to the Olympics and the team s lucky number 34 184 The Canadian Olympic Committee named Hewitt to its sub committee for boxing to select who represented Canada at the 1920 Summer Olympics 185 and had been credited with officiating hundreds of bouts as a boxing referee in Toronto 2 He oversaw travel arrangements for the national team to the remainder of the 1920 Summer Olympics which began in August 186 The boxers which he helped select won one gold two silver and two bronze medals for Canada 187 1924 Winter Olympics edit nbsp Hewitt with the Toronto Granites at the 1924 Winter Olympics Hewitt was appointed to the Canadian Olympic Committee in 1923 by its president Patrick J Mulqueen to represent the CAHA 188 The CAHA chose the Toronto Granites as the 1923 Allan Cup champions to represent Canada in ice hockey at the 1924 Winter Olympics and Hewitt was again chosen oversee the national team s finances at the Olympics 189 190 Hewitt was empowered by the CAHA to name replacement players as needed 191 and recruited Harold McMunn and Cyril Slater as replacements when four players from the Granites were unable to travel to the Olympics 192 The Granites and Hewitt sailed from Saint John aboard SS Montcalm to Liverpool then travelled to Chamonix 193 In his weekly report to the Toronto Daily Star Hewitt wrote that the Granites would face multiple changes in conditions compared to hockey games in Canada He did not feel the team would be affected by playing outdoors on natural ice in the morning or afternoon despite that the team was accustomed to playing indoors with electric lighting on artificial ice He also felt that the larger ice surface and lack of boards around the sides of the rink would mean more stick handling and less physical play 194 During the Olympics Hewitt attended the annual meeting and elections for the LIHG Since its rules stated that one of the vice presidents must be from North America Hewitt and USAHA president William S Haddock opted for a coin toss which decided that Haddock was elected to the position 195 When the Olympics organizers wanted to select hockey referees by drawing names out of a hat Hewitt and Haddock agreed to another coin toss to decide on the referee for the game between Canada and the United States men s national team Hewitt feared having an inexperienced referee for the game and his suggested to have LIHG president Paul Loicq officiate the game was confirmed by the coin toss 196 The Granites defeated the United States team by a 6 1 score and won all six games played to be the Olympic gold medallists 197 After the Olympics Hewitt accompanied the Granites to exhibition games in Paris and London followed by an audience with HRH The Prince of Wales at St James s Palace then sailing to Canada aboard SS Metagama from Liverpool to Saint John 198 1924 to 1928 edit Hewitt was renamed to the boxing committee for Canada at the 1924 Summer Olympics 199 where Canadian boxers won a bronze medal 200 He served as chairman of the AAU of C registration committee for 1926 and 1927 The committee was opposed to professionals and amateurs playing within the same league and he oversaw the reinstatement of professionals as amateurs 201 He was appointed to the AAU of C affiliations and alliances committee for 1927 and 1928 202 which sought to have the CRU as an affiliated member and to promote amateur sport in Canada 203 He also discussed an AAU of C alliance with the Dominion Football Association which failed due to disagreements on the mingling of amateurs and professionals in soccer 204 He later represented the Canadian Olympic Committee at the annual meeting for the Women s Amateur Athletic Federation of Canada in 1927 205 1928 Winter Olympics edit nbsp University of Toronto Graduates at the 1928 Winter Olympics The Canadian Olympic Committee appointed Hewitt as head of mission for Canada at the 1928 Winter Olympics He oversaw travel arrangements for the delegation which included figure skating speed skating skiing and ice hockey 206 Hewitt and the Canadian delegation totalled 47 people and sailed from Halifax aboard SS Arabic to Cherbourg then travelled to St Moritz 207 The University of Toronto Graduates as the 1927 Allan Cup champions were chosen to represent Canada in ice hockey and Hewitt oversaw the team s finances at the Olympics Conn Smythe coached the team during the OHA season but refused to go to the Olympics due to disagreements on which players were added to the team by the Canadian Olympic Committee The Graduates went without Smythe led by team captain Red Porter 207 Hewitt was opposed to the format of the hockey tournament at the Olympics which saw the Canadian team receive a bye into the second round He wanted the team to have more games rather than be idle for a week 208 Despite the wait to play the Graduates won all three games by scoring 38 goals and conceding none to win the gold medal After an exhibition tour through Austria Germany France and England Hewitt and the Graduates returned to Canada aboard SS Celtic 209 Later involvement edit Hewitt served on the executive of the Canadian Olympic Committee which selected athletes to compete at the 1928 Summer Olympics 210 In 1930 he was the chairman of the AAU of C publicity committee 211 He served as chairman of the winter games sub committee of the Canadian Olympic Committee which selected the Winnipeg Hockey Club as the 1931 Allan Cup champions to represent Canada in ice hockey at the 1932 Winter Olympics The Canadian Olympic Committee chose Claude C Robinson to oversee finances for the team while Hewitt was named honorary manager of the Winnipeg Hockey Club which won the gold medal at the Olympics Hewitt sought for future Canadian national teams at the Olympics to be the reigning Allan Cup champion team strengthened with six additional players 212 He remained on the Canadian Olympic Committee executive to select athletes for the 1932 Summer Olympics 213 Football career editHewitt was a football referee in the early 1900s after he played with the Toronto Football Club and the Toronto Wellesleys He transitioned into managing football and was able to recruit players whom he had become familiar with as a referee 214 He was an executive with Toronto Football Club and represented the team in meetings of the Ontario Rugby Football Union ORFU in 1902 215 He became the manager of the team in 1904 2 He led the team to two wins and two losses during the 1904 season but were defeated in two consecutive games by the Hamilton Tigers in the ORFU championship 216 nbsp Hewitt and the 1906 Toronto Argonauts When the Toronto Football Club merged with the Toronto Argonauts in 1905 Hewitt served as manager of the Argonauts until 1907 2 In the 1905 season he led the team to two wins two losses and second place in the ORFU 217 then were defeated in the ORFU championship by the Hamilton Tigers 218 He led the Argonauts to four wins two losses and second place in ORFU for the 1906 season 219 but did not qualify for the playoffs 220 Hewitt was vice president of the ORFU for the 1905 and 1906 seasons 221 222 and represented the Argonauts at ORFU meetings 223 He sought for ORFU to have uniform rules of play with the Canadian Rugby Union CRU with a preference to use the snap back system of play used in Ontario 224 When the CRU did not adopt the snap back system his motion was approved for the ORFU to adopt the CRU rules in 1906 225 In December 1906 The Gazette reported that a proposal originated from Ottawa for the ORFU and the Quebec Rugby Football Union to merge which would allow for higher calibre of play and create rivalries 222 Hewitt and the Argonauts favoured the higher level league and sought for all players to have unquestioned amateur status 226 He helped organize the meeting which established the Inter provincial Rugby Football Union IRFU in 1907 which included teams from Montreal Ottawa Toronto and Hamilton 2 14 In the 1907 season his team won just once in six games and did not qualify for the IRFU playoffs 227 Hewitt continued to serve on the ORFU executive was named a delegate to the CRU meetings in 1911 228 and was elected secretary of the ORFU in 1913 229 He was named to the CRU executive in 1912 and helped arrange matches for the senior and junior national championships 230 He was elected first vice president of the CRU in 1914 which coincided with annual discussions dealing with rules changes due to the influence American football 231 The CRU elected Hewitt president for the 1915 season He appointed a commission to establish uniforms rules of play at different levels including collegiate and senior 232 He approached multiple football coaches and sought feedback on best ways to implement standard playing rules 233 After the CRU did not operate from 1916 to 1918 due to World War I 234 Hewitt returned as president for the 1919 season 3 11 Due to disagreements on playing rules in Western Canada lack of interest in Eastern Canada and students prioritizing studies instead of intercollegiate sports national playoffs were not held in 1919 234 Hewitt later served as a referee for collegiate and IRFU games c 1919 c 1923 235 236 and represented referees on the CRU commission to revise and standardize the rules of play 237 Horse racing official edit nbsp Woodbine Race Course c 1909 While reporting on horse racing Hewitt made frequent visits to Ontario Jockey Club secretary W P Fraser who appointed him patrol judge at Woodbine Race Course in 1905 Hewitt became steward at the Thorncliffe Park Raceway in 1917 then later at the Devonshire Raceway and Kenilworth Park Racetrack in Windsor and at Stamford Park in Niagara Falls 238 Hewitt and his son Foster called the first horse race broadcast on radio the King s Plate in 1925 34 Hewitt was a steward of the Incorporated Canadian Racing Association for 31 years 1 239 and was named the chief steward in 1937 after many years as the assistant steward 2 78 On June 5 1937 Hewitt was one of the stewards which ordered a rerun at Thorncliffe Park Raceway after the race was declared a false start when one horse was missing from its stall and the flag had not been dropped when other horses jumped the barrier The decision was protested by spectators who stood to lose bets placed on the race and an angry mob occupied the track for more than two hours in a near riotous protest 240 In 1938 the Incorporated Canadian Racing Association debated actions to take regarding doping in horses 241 As a steward he imposed the suspension of trainer and a horse due to tests on the saliva of a horse 242 When the Government of Canada imposed a 5 per cent tax for betting on horse racing in 1941 Hewitt felt it would not affect wagers and was among a group which pledged that race tracks would co operate with the government 243 In 1950 the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed a bill to establish a body to oversee all forms of horse racing in the province and to issue licenses to all persons involved in the sport Hewitt was recommended to be on its governing committee by member of parliament William Houck 244 The Ontario Racing Association was established in April 1950 and appointed Hewitt as steward 245 He subsequently served 14 years in the position 11 He was involved in the investigation and discipline of jockeys and trainers reforms to riding fees paid to jockeys establishing medical examination requirements for jockeys and horses and the implementation of recording races on film to investigate a close finish or foul play during the race 246 Personal life editHewitt lived on Roxborough Street at Yonge Street in the Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto and had a summer house on the Toronto Islands in proximity to Hanlan s Point Stadium 8 247 On Sundays he regularly took the family on road trips in their 1912 Pullman automobile to Hamilton or Oakville and his children sometimes accompanied him in the press box while he reported on sporting events 8 While on family vacation Hewitt and his son attended the 1918 World Series in Boston and were later stricken with the 1918 influenza pandemic 248 Hewitt s grandson Bill Hewitt born 1928 followed in the family footsteps with a career as a sports commentator 1 3 9 nbsp Hewitt family grave stone In June 1948 Hewitt recovered from a three month skin ailment which doctors thought would affect his heart and end his sporting career 249 On November 15 1952 his wife was killed in a head on automobile collision on U S Route 6 east of Scranton Pennsylvania The vehicle driven by his son in law Charles A Massey skidded on a curve and hit an oncoming car 250 251 Hewitt had both of his arms broken in the accident 1 Hewitt published his memoirs in 1958 titled Down the Stretch Recollections of a Pioneer Sportsman and Journalist 252 253 While boarding a plane with the Winnipeg Maroons in Prague he had an asthmatic heart attack and was taken to the Stresovice Hospital He had pneumonia at the time and a previous heart condition 169 He was transferred to The London Clinic in England on January 19 170 where he recovered and returned to Canada on January 27 254 He later joked that his best memory of the incident was that Elizabeth Taylor later took over his suite in the London hospital 9 Hewitt was frail in later life lived with his son Foster and then at a retirement home in Toronto 255 Hewitt died on September 8 1966 in Toronto 1 3 11 He was interred with his wife in Mount Pleasant Cemetery Toronto plot 3 lot 7 256 257 He left an estate valued at CA 136 262 equivalent to 1 066 737 in 2020 which included shares in the Toronto Granite Club 258 Honours and awards editHewitt was made a life member of the OHA on December 5 1925 49 78 259 In 1938 he was a guest of honour at an Ontario Sportsmen s Association banquet and was given a silver cup in recognition of his 35 years of work with the OHA 260 At the OHA s golden jubilee in 1939 he was honoured for his work as secretary which helped the association reach its milestone 261 nbsp The Hockey Hall of Fame building which also hosts the IIHF Hall of Fame In October 1945 Hewitt was chosen for induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame among the six original members of the builder category 166 The Hockey Hall of Fame and the International Hockey Hall of Fame both list his year of induction as 1947 49 262 At the 1948 CAHA general meeting Hewitt was presented with a scroll from the Hockey Hall of Fame in recognition of his induction 263 Hewitt received the OHA Gold Stick Award in 1947 and was among the inaugural group recognized by the highest award given by the OHA for contributions to hockey 264 He received a citation from Tommy Lockhart of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States in 1950 for service to hockey in the USA where he assisted with setting up amateur leagues 265 On December 8 1953 Hewitt was the guest of honour at a testimonial dinner attended by 500 sportsmen from Canada and the United States to celebrate his 50th anniversary as secretary of the OHA 2 14 In 1955 the OHA established an endowment at the Hospital for Sick Children with a bed named Hewitt and his wife 266 At the general meeting in 1960 Hewitt was made a life member of the CAHA 267 He was given a standing ovation when he retired at the general meeting in 1961 and the CAHA stated it would later present Hewitt with a painting of his choice 9 In 1966 Hewitt was the guest of honour at a second testimonial dinner to recognize his OHA career when he was named honorary life secretary of the OHA 255 In May 1966 he received a sports citation from the Government of Ontario in recognition of his sporting career 268 Hewitt was posthumously recognized by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF for contributions to the international game with induction into the builder category of the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1998 269 Legacy and reputation edit nbsp The Dudley Hewitt Cup Hewitt had multiple ice hockey trophies named for him including the W A Hewitt Trophy for the winner of the playoffs series between the senior A level champions of the OHA and the Northern Ontario Hockey Association 270 the W A Hewitt Trophy awarded to the senior B level champion of the OHA 271 and the W A Hewitt Trophy awarded to the bantam B level finalists in the Ontario Minor Hockey Association 272 Hewitt and George Dudley are the namesakes of the Dudley Hewitt Cup It was first awarded by the Canadian Junior Hockey League in 1971 to the Central Canada Junior A champion team who moves on to the national Centennial Cup competition 273 274 275 The origins of hockey committee reported that the first nets on hockey goalposts were introduced during a game in Montreal by Hewitt who was then the sporting editor of the Montreal Herald In the same report Hewitt stated that that idea came from fellow journalist Francis Nelson who conceived the nets while on a visit to Australia Hewitt also stated that nets might have been used in the OHA sooner than in Montreal 276 Despite Hewitt giving credit to Nelson reports persisted that credited Hewitt with introducing nets including his obituary in The Toronto Daily Star 34 49 192 James T Sutherland stated that the OHA was fortunate to have Hewitt as its secretary and owe d most of its success to him 277 Sutherland referred to Hewitt as a miracle man of hockey who did more than anyone to guide the game through its scant and lean years 78 Journalist Scott Young credited Hewitt for being a forward thinker and in tune with George Dudley in reversing the ban on professional coaches in the OHA 278 The Kingston Whig Standard columnist Mike Rodden wrote that Hewitt was a solid man who followed a chosen star of destiny as an ice hockey executive and a kindly man but he was so dedicated to the cause that he tolerated no nonsense 192 The Canadian Press writer Wilfred Gruson described Hewitt as one of the most respected authorities in the Dominion on hockey and horse racing and that Hewitt was unequalled in his knowledge of the complexities of hockey 249 The Canadian Press sports editor Jack Sullivan wrote most almost to a fault Hewitt had remained behind the scenes in various administrative capacities while nursing these sports to their present status 14 Notes edit Multiple sources and newspaper headlines referred to him as Billy Hewitt in addition to his common name W A Hewitt 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Hewitt wrote in his memoirs that he guarded his middle name as a secret and that his namesake was parliamentarian and educator Abraham Code 10 Several newspapers reported his middle name to be Arthur 1 7 as did the autobiography of Foster Hewitt 8 One source listed Hewitt s middle name Archibald 11 whereas Abraham was listed on his birth certificate 12 and his marriage license 13 The Miller Act was named for Henry Morton Miller the member of parliament for Grey South who introduced to legislation regulate gambling in horse racing 44 References edit a b c d e f Hewitt Organized Promoted Sports Brantford Expositor Brantford Ontario September 9 1966 p 8 nbsp a b c d e f g h i j k l m Sullivan Jack December 8 1953 After 60 Years In Sport 500 Sportsmen To Honor William Billy Hewitt Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba p 19 nbsp Sullivan Jack December 8 1953 Sportsmen Honour W A Billy Hewitt at Dinner Tonight The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario The Canadian Press p 11 nbsp a b c d Billy Hewitt Dies At 91 The Brandon Sun Brandon Manitoba September 9 1966 p 6 nbsp Sutherland James T January 17 1929 Who Put Hockey on the Map The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario p 8 nbsp Young Scott 1989 p 64 Financial Boss of Canuck Hockey Team The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba April 23 1920 p 19 nbsp a b c d Baker Ed October 17 1931 Short Shots on Sport Ottawa Citizen Ottawa Ontario p 10 nbsp a b c d Hewitt Foster May 23 1981 Beginnings Foster Hewitt Ottawa Citizen Ottawa Ontario p 163 nbsp a b c d e f Billy Gets Fond Adieu From CAHA A Registrar Since 1924 The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba May 23 1961 p 36 nbsp Canada s Grand Old Man Of Hockey Retires From CAHA Treasurer Post The Brandon Sun Brandon Manitoba May 24 1961 p 7 nbsp a b c d Hewitt W A 1958 p 2 a b c d e Ferguson Bob 2005 p 174 a b c Wallace R B April 3 1944 May 15 1875 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Manitoba December 7 1921 p 21 nbsp Armstrong E A February 14 1942 In the Realm of Sport Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba p 25 nbsp a b c d e f Hewitt William Honoured Builder Legends of Hockey Hockey Hall of Fame 1947 Retrieved January 1 2022 a b Looking Over the World of Sport The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario October 17 1931 p 8 nbsp Hewitt W A 1958 p 17 Young Scott 1989 pp 62 63 Hewitt W A 1958 p 184 33 Years as O H A Secretary Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Alberta November 28 1936 p 18 nbsp Thomas Syd March 31 1944 Sport Snap ups Medicine Hat Daily News Medicine Hat Alberta The Canadian Press p 4 nbsp Accepted In O H A Senior A To Form Seven team Circuit Special Schedule to Be Drafted The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario The Canadian Press October 20 1941 p 8 nbsp Two Groups In The O H A Senior Series Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba December 17 1917 p 6 nbsp O H A Business Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba December 7 1907 p 12 nbsp Young Scott 1989 pp 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Only to Plan for Season Tonight Annual Meeting Next Week The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba p 13 nbsp Hockey Body Will Not Hold Annual Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba December 8 1917 p 15 nbsp Fort William and 61st Teams Ordered to Play Here March 9 and 13 The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba March 8 1916 p 10 nbsp Ching Tim March 3 1917 Ontario Wants To Contest Only One Series For Trophy The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba p 25 nbsp Sporting Notes Ready With Rules The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario November 9 1918 p 16 nbsp Canadian Amateur Hockey Association 1990 pp 137 138 Anxious To Have Western Juniors Play In East For Championship Medicine Hat News Medicine Hat Alberta February 1 1919 p 5 nbsp Finlay W J March 20 1919 Standard Rules Adopted For Allan Cup In Future Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba p 14 nbsp Plan Union To Control Ice Sports In Canada and U S Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba October 23 1919 p 17 nbsp New Body Created At Hockey 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Kingston Ontario The Canadian Press April 11 1939 p 9 nbsp 38 000 Profit In Puck Series The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba April 26 1943 p 16 nbsp a b Sargent Is Returned As C A H A President Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba The Canadian Press April 27 1943 p 12 nbsp Smith Maurice May 21 1963 Time Out Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba p 19 nbsp Mitchell Jack March 16 1946 Snap ups Medicine Hat Daily News Medicine Hat Alberta The Canadian Press p 3 nbsp Ontario Body Warns of Residence Rule The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario April 15 1925 p 12 nbsp a b C A H A Take Action After Long Debate Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Alberta The Canadian Press October 19 1931 p 11 nbsp a b Ruling Made By A A U Is Not New One Medicine Hat News Medicine Hat Alberta December 20 1930 p 7 nbsp Pros Come Back To Amateur Ranks The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario November 22 1933 p 8 nbsp Touring Hockey Players Are All Denied Branch Transfers By Registration Committee Winnipeg Free 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Charles January 4 1943 Across Canada Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba p 13 nbsp Puck Problem Kingston First With Hockey The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba March 17 1943 p 14 nbsp Want Writers To Name Notables Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Alberta The Canadian Press September 27 1943 p 12 nbsp W A Hewitt Is Named Chairman Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg Manitoba The Canadian Press April 18 1944 p 13 nbsp Hewitt Chairman Of Shrine Board The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba April 19 1944 p 33 nbsp CAHA Heads Make Donation to Hockey s Hall of Fame The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario The Canadian Press April 17 1945 p 8 nbsp Nine for Ice Hall of Fame Medicine Hat Daily News Medicine Hat Alberta The Canadian Press May 3 1945 p 6 nbsp a b Six Builders of Hockey Added to Hall of Fame Medicine Hat Daily News Medicine Hat Alberta The Canadian Press October 17 1945 p 4 nbsp New Shrine Governors Are Named The Winnipeg Tribune Winnipeg Manitoba January 31 1948 p 18 nbsp Incorporation 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