Show U 1 TEAM LOSES s TO ARGENTINE BOXERS I South American Sport o t I Critics Regard Boxers as Lacking Technique BUENOS AIRES May 17 AP Argentine sports critics regard the United States Sates amateur boxers who participated In the pan Ameri can championships here last week weeks as s hard hitters and capable of standing punishment but lacking in technique The standing after the two nIgh nights s of fighting was five to three e in favor of South America The visiting boxers will leave for home Thursday on the Pan Amer lea ica The American winners were Jack McCarron Somerville Mass lightweight lightweight lightweight light light- weight Arthur Flynn Lawrence Mass pounds Stanley Simmons Simmons Simmons Sim Sim- mons Pitts Pittsburg burg pounds Followers of the ring sport I here re were In the failure of the Americans to show a finished ability the writers' writers say Rodriguez Jurado who refer refereed ed last nights night's bouts singled out Flynn as the best among the visitors from the standpoint of skill Flynn was the pound contestant One critic says that this performance perform perform- ance of a team selected from hundreds hundreds hun bun of candidates dispelled the somewhat exaggerated local Impression Impression impression Im Im- as to the real merits of amater pugilism In the United States The Americans however scored the only two knockdowns of the championships Captain Charles Mabbutt leader of ot the American boxers said that that in n his opinion tha Americans lost because they had better men be before before before be- be fore them During the bout between Mendez and Charles Halloren of ot Pittsburg an Argentine Dr Crescencio Crescen- Crescen clo cio dropped dead in the ringside seats seats' |