The fortune of £57,000 left by the late William Gunn, the great Notts professional, must be very nearly, if not quite; a record. Gunn was umoni* the pioneers of sports-outfitting, which has now usurped the place of innkeeping with old cricjcoters. The old pustom ordained that if a county professional did not keep a "pub" already, he should invest his "benefit" money in a snug tavern, which ho would proceed to adorn with trophy batß and balls. Nowadays the sports shop is more popular, BHpecially with the cricket "•tans, whose namets arc ft xoodwill in themielve»
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 16
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