In their apology to Sussex the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club Committee made a. valid point when they argued that disregard of con ditions which In. the ordinary way would: stop play and the consequent conversion of 4 moral vielory. into 4 real one by virtually defeated oponents" might adversely affect the Championship prospects of other! counties. "is conceivable, for" ample, that had Sussex been higher in' the table, the record of full points in the "match at Have might! enabled that county to rob, say, Derby shire or Yorkshire of champion ship honours, Similarly it'may now appear that the three points secured by Notts as the result of Heane's action, now repudiated, will just secure for Notts the premier place at the end of the season. Yet in realty this argument does not smelly spply "the case under review, for although when Heane appealed agains the state of the weather the umpires were bound to agree with him, his Jatstention from appealing would fomatically have enabled "the. two teans to have continued playing and brought the maioli to a definite conclusion, While therefore Notts cor-Teelly stated a general principle, their Janat conclusion in dissociating themselves from their captain's ection Belter than their argument
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