[1] The cricket writer A. G. Moyes said of Hack's career that he did "grand service for [South Australia] as an opening batsman.

Standing a few inches over six feet, he was an extremely difficult man to dislodge once he dug in his heels.

Never quite Test class, he was nevertheless a remarkably handy man for the ordinary first-class game.

[5][6] In 1924 he was manager of the Missenden Road Body Building Works in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown.

[7] He and his wife had two daughters and two sons, Alfred and Reginald, both of whom played cricket for South Australia.