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Show Wisconsin Girl Wins Ice Title Amid Spills and Heated Taunts - PETOSKEY. Mich., Feb. 8 (INS)-Madyd Horn, new national na-tional cjueen of women katera, and Dorothy Franey, the girl ihe desthroned. today planned to renew their feud next week alter their races here ended In aplllf and acreaming taunts. Miss Horn, lanky 25-ysar-old daughter of a Beaver Dam, Wis., cheese merchant, won th senior women's event in th national speed skating championships held here Saturday and Sunday as ths feature of Michigan's annual ten-day winter win-ter carnival. She piled np 135 points in five races in th two days against Miss 1 Franey, th red-headed St. Paul defending de-fending champ, who had 116 points. Finishes of ths last three races Sunday found both girls sprawled headlong on ths Ice, with Miss Horn . protesting the first time, "Franey grabbed my right foot when she . spilled; that's why I went down." ' A little later in th mil final, both went down again, but Miss Horn slid across ths finish line ahead. At the end of th final race, a three-quarters mil, th two col-, col-, lided at the finish. Miss Horn won, but she turned on Miss Franey and screamed: . -That's th third Urn today. Why ' don't you skate right, Franey ' "Skat right yourself," the St Paul girl screamed back. "How ' about pushing me Into a snowbank " at th turn?" In th men's events her, Marvin 1 Swanson of Minneapolis successfully 1 defended bis national amateur . crown. He scored 80 points. Sec-' Sec-' ond was Alex Hurd of St Louis, 1938 1 Canadian Olympic skater, who had 70. |