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Show MELVIN SHEPPERD FILES A SUIT New York. April 27 Melvln W I Shepperd, holder of the world's championship cham-pionship amateur running records and representative of the United States In several Olympic contests, filed suit today for f25,000 for dama&ea because of Injuries sustained by a fall in Madison Mad-ison Square Garden February 10 last which be alleges removed him from the field r athletics Tli- defendants are the F. and n lornpany; '!)' show rorp'.ration. and the New York Athletic club The complaint sots forth that Shep-perd Shep-perd while competing in b 300-yard race in the Garden stepped upon a rotten rot-ten part of the flooring and was thrown and injured. |