James Lillywhiite's Cricketers' Annual 1874

SUTTON'S GRASS SEEDS FOR CRICKET GROUNDS . S U T T O N& S O N S ESPECIALLYP R E P A R EM I X T U R E SOF THE FINEST KINDS OF GRASSES AND CLOVERS F O R 2000 Making Yew or Improving Old Cricket Grounds . ForMaking NewGrounds 3 Bushels should be sown per Acre. For Improving Cricket Grounds 20 lbs . per Acre is suficient . These Mixtures have been used with great success at LORD'S , OXFORD, CAM- BRIDGE , CHELTENHAM , READING , MARLBOROUGH, ALDERSHOT, BRIGHTON, and other Cricket Grounds , and may be thoroughly relied on to produce a close and evergreenturf. In ordering it is necessary to state the nature of the soil to be sown . Complete instructions on the formation and improvement of Cricket Grounds gratis andpost free . SuttonandSons, Seedsmen, by special Appointmento the QueenandH.R.H.the Prince ofWales, Reading,Berks. E S T A B L I S H E D U P W A R D S O FH A L FA C E N T U R Y . JEFFERIES & MALINGS , 1, L O W E RW O O DS T R E E T, W O O L W I C H , S.E. Patentees of the Celebrated Cane-handled Racket , and the Indestructible Cat Gut S e a mCricketB a l l, M A N U F A C T U R E R S A N DE X P O R T E R S O F Patent Cane-handled Rackets, Bluck's Rackets, Balls ,Presses , Racket Shoes, Fives Bats, FivesBalls, FootBalls, FivesGlovesandFives Shoes, TennisBats, TennisBalls, and C o m m o nTennis Balls , Gymnasium,Yachting andGardenShoes, Cricketing material and every article used in British Sports. Medals and Honourable Mention from all the Exhibitions . T E S T I M O N I A L . THEINDESTRUCTIBLE CRICKET BALL.-Poets and Philosophers in all ages have given mankindto understand that everything must perish with the handling andusing, and thewholeworld has hitherto bowedto this natural decree . Messrs. Jefferies andMalings ofWoolwichhave, it would seem, discovered a lawof resistance . O nminute examina- tion ofthe " Indestructible Ball ," the chief novelty , and in fact the only one apparentto ourd i mvision, is a Cat Gut Seam, which certainly adds to the ordinary strength of the quarterings . Oneof these matchballs has been submitted to as severe a test as fairness wouldadmitof, andit has comeout of the trial without a distressed stitch , andwith scarcely anydeformity of shape.--The Field . Manufacturers to Prince's Club and the Oxford and Cambridge Universities . A L LO R D E R SE N T R U S T E DTO US S H A L LR E C E I V EP R O M P TA T T E N T I O N.