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Show SHEPPARD IN WRECK New York. March 5. Melvin W Shcppard, the veteran champion runner run-ner of the Irish American Athletic club, has notified the Amateur Athletic Ath-letic Union that he will probably be unable to compote In the senior in door championships tomorrow night Sheppard had a thrilling experience In a train wreck in Canada on Mci day when five coaches of the Wabash fher from Detroit for Buffalo, on which he was a passenger, rolled down a 20 foot embankment Although the car in which Sheppard was ridln rolled over three times, the athlete escaped, he belieed at the time, serious ser-ious Injury. He has told the A . D committee since, however, that he feared he had received internal In-Juries In-Juries and that It would not be safo for him to compete. Sheppard was favorite for the 300-yard 300-yard championship and was also considered con-sidered a dangerous competitor in the fiOO yard race, which, with Klvlat, Mcrldlth, Davenport and Halpin entered, en-tered, is the feature of the meet |