 In his final season he helped South Australia win the Sheffield Shield by scoring 607 runs at 67.44, including an innings of 232 against Queensland.In October 1927 he was appointed by the Western Australian Cricket Association as state coach for a two-year contract, and he played a few first-class matches for Western Australia from 1927–28 to 1929–30.His highest first-class score was 280 (in 242 minutes) for South Australia against the MCC in 1922–23, when he became the first person to hit a century before lunch in Australia.