[1] White bowled with a fluent, upright action that maximised his height and he relied on accuracy and changes of pace rather than movement to secure wickets.

Against South Australia in 1935–36, he captured 8/31 on a receptive pitch at the Sydney Cricket Ground, which included a spell of four wickets for no runs.

[3] Chosen to tour England in 1938 with the Australian team led by Don Bradman, he was not suited to the batting-friendly pitches that resulted from a summer of dry weather and he claimed only 30 wickets (at 23.60 average).

[3] Ted White worked in the family's sharebroking business before enlisting in the Australian army during World War II.

He served in the Middle East and New Guinea, rising from the rank of private to major by the war's end.