 He was the number five of Australia in the time he Frank Sedgman (1), Ken McGregor (2), Mervyn Rose (3) and Dinny Pails (4) had, but was higher than his countrymen Geoffrey Brown ('24) Bill Sidwell ('20), Bob Howe ('25) Rex Hartwig ('29), Ian Ayre ('29), George Worthington ('28) and Don Tregonning ('29) before the next generation of Australian tennis players in picture came with, among others, Ken Rosewall.Jack Arkinstall wrote in 1967 a book titled The Arkinstall Tennis Rhythm Method.He died at the age of 56 of a heart attack.