Spider Hewitt
Name: Spider Hewitt
Alias: Willie Fool
Birth Name: Ernest Clifton Hewitt
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1986-08-08 (Age:73)
Height: 183cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Spider Hewitt married in Pasquotank, North Carolina, in 1935. He had son in San Diego, 1936.
Hewitt is in the 1940 Norfolk, Virginia, city register as "Spider Hewitt," no profession listed, living at 500 Main St.
He died in Newton County, Texas.
Newspaper story about Hewitt from 1935: [1]. According to that newspaper story, he defeated Frank Ferrone and Frankie O'Ben in 1935, between the Glen Morgan and Eddie Marks fights. Also according to that story, he had won 15 straight fights (by Sept. 30, 1935) after leaving New London, Connecticut.
After spending much of his life in the Navy, Hewitt became a Methodist minister, according to a UPI story about him from 1974: [2]. In that story he asserts that he fought 168 professional fights, often under the 'Willie Fool' alias. He says he lost seven fights and had 68 KOs.
A story about him from 1936: [3]