In the final against Harry Parker, he made many successful forays to the net and he won in four sets.

In 1905 he won the Maerenbad Cup in Marienbad Brandenberg, Germany, on clay, beating Kurt von Wessely.

An elegant batsman, he was the first player to score a double-century in senior Perth cricket, and set a long-standing record of 19 centuries in the competition.

[2] Despite failing eyesight, which had affected his later sporting career, Parker enlisted in the Australian army in World War I.

[2][8][9] A biography, Ernest Parker: Not a Love Story, by Max Bonnell and Andrew Sproul, was published by The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians in 2024.