Volt Wins @ McBride #3

"The luck of the third adventure" is proverbial. It at least stems from the 19th century (Alexander Hislop's The proverbs of Scotland, 1862: "The third time's lucky.").

Why is the third time lucky? A common explanation has been that it alludes to the belief that, under English law, anyone who survived three attempts at hanging would be set free. This is probably from the story of John 'Babbacombe' Lee. Lee was a West Country sailor who was convicted of the murder of Emma Keyse at Babbacombe Bay in 1885. He was sentenced to hang at Exeter prison and three attempts to execute him all failed. The Home Secretary, Sir William Harcourt, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment and Lee was later freed. He was known after that as 'the man they couldn't hang' and went on to live a long life, dying sometime in the 1940s.

Well, we won at our third tournament on Saturday. Much thanks to John Jacobsen at McBride HS for putting on a great tournament (again) despite the fact that most of their equipment was in storage in Malibu and couldn't be retrieved because of the Woolsey Fire. The benefit of only having one field for 30 teams was how much time there was between matches which allowed us to actually relax during a tournament (Minjun actually finished a long novel).

Thanks also to our new friends from the 35211D Crean Lutheran HS team. You guys rock!