Leon Boullemier

Cricket career Bullimer was Northamptonshire County Cricket Club's official scorer for more than 50 years. When future Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman was in charge of Northampton Town before the First World War, he occasionally acted as substitute scorer when Bullimer was unavailable.

He was active in fund-raising on behalf of the club, its players, and cricketers in general. According to an overview of the club in the 1958 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, "no reference to Northamptonshire cricket would be complete without mention of Leo Bullimer ... [whose] efforts in raising funds did much to keep Northamptonshire going during some of their worst financial crises." In 1933, he proposed the establishment of a fund to guarantee cricketers a minimum £500 return from their benefit match, so that players were not disadvantaged by having represented a "smaller", financially weaker, club. When England and Northamptonshire opening batsman Fred Bakewell suffered head injuries and a badly broken arm in a car accident in which a teammate was killed and was unable to resume his career, Bullimer organised financial support for him so that he would not be solely dependent on public assistance.

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