Mexborough and Swinton Times, May 13th, 1932
A Local Habitation and a Name
Swinton is feeling a very natural elation and pride in the exploits of a women’s hockey team which has devastated the Sheffield district, secured all the available trophies and withstood the strongest team that could be brought against it. The team has brought lustre to Swinton sport.
As the president of the Swinton Athletic Club remarked at a celebration gathering the other evening it has given that club the best advertisement it has ever had. And the best of it is that not one member of this illustrious team is a Swintonian! Mexborough contributed its modest quota, and so did several surrounding townships but Swinton gave nothing, receiving all.
Does this detract from Swinton’s glory! On the contrary. There would be nothing especially meritorious about a Swinton team bred in Swinton. For whom else should Swinton girls play? But for a fortuitous collection of brilliant hockey players to come together and faced with the necessity of giving themselves a local habitation and a name, to confer with one consent that honour on Swinton is surely a very striking tribute to the prestige of that noble town.
Confronted with such an example, is there one of us who is not tempted to apply for naturalisation papers?