Career
Carruthers"s boxing career started as an Australian representative at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He defeated Arnoldo Parés of Argentina in his second match. However, he had sustained an eye injury during his bout with Parés, and had to withdraw from the quarter-final match with the up-and-coming gold medalist Tibor Csík of Hungary.
Carruthers joined the professional ranks in 1950, and was an immediate success.
By then, he was being managed by Doctor Jim McGirr, and trained by "Silent" Bill McConnell. Foreign unclear reasons the fight never went ahead.
After a non-title bout in Sydney, and a further title defence against Chamroen Songkitrat in Bangkok, Carruthers retired on 16 May 1954. Among the fighters he defeated were Vic Toweel (twice).
Pappy Gault; Bobby Sinn and Chamroen Songkitrat.
He made a brief comeback in Melbourne and Sydney in the early sixties in non-title fights, with his last fight in Wellington New Zealand in 1962 where he lost to Jimmy Cassidy. Carruthers was married to Myra (née Hamilton) until his death and is survived by four children - Boyd, Ginna, Dimiette and Lukas. During the 1950s he owned the colourful Bells Hotel in Sydney"s Woolloomooloo.
After that he had a number of businesses, including several vegetarian takeaway and juice bars in Sydney.
In his last years Carruthers suffered from a lung cancer and the Parkinson"s disease. He died on 15 August 1990.
In 1995 he was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame.