The Police and Citizens Youth Club in Woolloomooloo opened in 1937 and was the original club in the network of youth fitness and socialising locations. It has trained some of Australia’s elite boxers, including the famous boxing wharfie, Jimmy Carruthers, who won the world bantamweight title in 1952.
They once held adult boxing fitness classes there, and it was during these sessions I got to know one of those classic ‘old timers’ who had ‘seen it all’.
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