And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...
Foster Hewitt 1902-1985
broadcaster, voice of Hockey Night in Canada, was born on this day at Toronto; died in Scarborough in Apr 21 1985. Hewitt started as a sportswriter for the Toronto Star. He started in radio in March, 1923, when he made one of the world's first hockey broadcasts from Toronto's Mutual Street Arena, using an upright telephone. For over 50 years he was the announcer for thousands of NHL, world and Olympic hockey matches. He also did the broadcast of the 1925 King's Plate, Canada's first broadcast of a horse race. Conn Smythe got him to MC and call the play-by-play at the opening of Maple Leaf Gardens in 1931. Hewitt served as the voice of the Leafs up until the 1960s, both radio and TV, when his son Bill took the reins. Hewitt also wrote several sports books.
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