Mr. Marsden participated i several of the Wigan touring parties and he related one particular experience of a visit to Cardiff. "We had with us Dick Seddon, 'Parrot' Anderton, Tom Morris... Joe Wardle, Jack Hunter, Joe Clegg, Billy Atkinson, E. Bullough, J. Hatton, Unsworth, Jack Anderton... Charlie Samuels, immy Telford and Tom Leyland as umpire. The clubs we met on that occasion were Cardiff, Neath and Penycrag. The late Jack Armstrong, who filled the role of treasurer, Joe Clegg and myself had to settle up with the manager for our expenses at a big hotel, which was made our headquarters. At the hotel was a big fellow, who acted as janitor and answered all sorts of inquiries. When we were just about the pay the account the janitor was standing in the hall and suddenly a volume of water descended upon his silk hat from the top landing of the well-shaped staircase. The culprit was a member of our team, and as often was the case we had to make amends for the damage arising from pranks of that description."

"At the present time we hear much of representatives of Northern Union teams scouting in South Wales and elsewhere for players - the ready made article. The process was carried out by many so called Rugby Union Amateurs whose only ambition to play was their love for the game... I will remember along with another committee-man visiting the neighbouring village of Walkden, where at that time they were one of the best of Lancashire teams. One errand was to secure the services of Goodman and Pope, the former a great fullback, the latter being a speedy and resourceful three-quarter, and we had the address of both these players, but by some means or other the villagers got wind that the Wigan scouts were in the neighbourhood, and when we arrived at the house of (one) we had quite a lively reception from a hostile crowd. Needless to say we did not remain there too long and gladly accepted the offer of two policemen who preferred to see us safely back to the station. At the same time one of the men... saying we both deserved nothing and i may tell you this was my first ad last attempt at scouting. On that occasion we were empowered to offer both men £1 for each match they played. Then again, why did three of Wigan's most noted players leave us and transfer their services to Salford for fully three seasons and after the long run they returned to their old club did they play purely for the love of the game? Certainly not!"

"The gate money was never so plentiful in those days as it is now, and it was quite a common practice when the team was playing away from home for the treasurer to pay a Saturday morning visit to a certain well-known tradesman in the town (who was also a committeeman) for the necessary money to procure railway tickets.

"My impressions are that Northern Union football is far ore interesting to watch and more scientific than the old-fashioned Rugby Union game with it's monotonous line ups and scrummaging. What would the present Wigan spectators think of a scrum lasting 10 or 15 minutes, and scarcely a yard of ground gained by either backline, very much fear they would not draw their average eight or nine thousand spectators to witness the games.

"By the way, I have wanted to mention the name of that player Jack Lowe. It was he who was the pivot of most of the wheeling of the scrimmages during my 13 years' connection with the club. In the interviews with Mr. James Slevin published not long ago, it was stated that our late friend and Borough Coroner and captain, Charles Cronshaw, borrowed collecting boxes from his father's church St. Thomas's, whereby we made collections from the spectators round the field of play. That statement is not quite correct. It was myself who made the boxes with the usual short handles similar to those used in places of worship but we found that the supporters who stood behind never offered to put anything in the box, and for the next month I worked on the handle of each box a short stick about 4 feet long so that we could reach over to those at the back and if upon any occasion we received anything over £2 we considered ourselves very well off indeed. Those were in the early days of course, for as the years rolled on I have known gates pretty frequently of £70 and £80, and something like £140 was taken when the Maori team visited Prescott-street ground. In the later years we had made such progress that we were able to get fixtures with the leading clubs in Lancashire and Yorkshire and could more than hold our own with the best of them.

"The best fullback I ever remember was Billy Fawcett, of Manningham (Bradford), and for three-quarters I should think Lorrimer, Lockwood and Sutcliffe (afterwards with Bolton Wanderers) were as fine three-quarters as anyone would wish to watch. All these players opposed our then Wigan teams times innumerable.

"The different football feats mentioned in previous articles are all well remembered by me, specifically that remarkable try gained by Captain Slevin at Valley Parade, when the referee, Mr. Lord, of Broughton, refused to give a decision owing to the menacing attitude of the Manningham spectators. In this particular match the late and respected Joseph W. Clegg played full-back owing to our regular full-back, whoever he was, having missed the train. Mention should also be made of the try gained by vice-captain Jack Hunter against Kendal Hornets, at Wigan, when he dribbled the ball three parts the length of the field and beating opponent after opponent."

Asked a question as to the present Wigan team he remarked: "Of the backs I have no fault to find. They are all sterling players if only they could get the ball oftener, which could easily be accomplished if we had a few more honest scrimmagers: with fast loose forwards (wingers they used to call them) and an open field nothing is more pleasing to the ordinary spectator, but when the forwards are beaten as has been the case on several occasions this season the present team has too many finger-tip scrimmagers of the Sammy Woods type in the old days ad the sooner we have more of the Silcock, Whittaker, Billy Atkinson and Jack Lowe type the better as witness the debacle at Warrington, Widnes etc..."

Mr. Marsden concluded, "If I were asked the question which to my mind were the happiest days of my youth I should most certainly choose the time when we were a Hare and Hounds Club, which was abandoned just previous to the Wigan Wasps Football Club being formed. At the end of my association with the Wigan Club I had other interests, and up to the present my attention has been diverted in another channel - male voice choir singing. Whilst on the point I am sorry to any that owing to lack of enthusiasm the Wigan Harmony Male Voice Choir has ceased to exist, much to the sorrow of a dozen or so members, who have for the past two years made many sacrifice, financial and otherwise, to keep the choir alive."