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Show SIIEPPARD TRAXiSFKRRKD TO XEW YORK CITY" Tribune Special Sporting Service. IS'ISW YORK. Oct. 10. Again conies the news that Melvin Sheppard. America's premier middle-distance runner, has boon transferred by the government from his post at Licorice Wharf, Cumdon. Is'. J.. lo tho Xow York custom house. The samo announcement last . summer proved ! premature and totally false. Sheppard told a close friend of his tho other night that ids application has been I favorably acted upon by tho powers that be In the customs service, and ho will be transferred to the Xew York Job under date of November 10. 1iving In Philadel- i phta has been one of the handicaps that ! has kept Shoppnrd from KetlinK in line i condition this. -fall, lie has practically no plaeo to train steadily and no one to work out with. In addition, he lias been nblo to get Into a race about, onco a month over In Philadelphia, whereas by living here he can get a nico once a week. |