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Bushers Beam Gains Driving Victory Over Do Report at Monmouth Course , Winner Fashions Own Pace To Score by Length, Half With Blue Label II. Third By FRED GALIANI MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 21. Bushers Beam was on the beam .all right in the Jersey City Kiwanis Purse this afternoon and carried Eugene Con-stantin, Jr.s green and white silks to a driving victory, leading from start to finish. The Mr. Busher colt triumphed by a length and a half over Dewey Gottliebs Do Report, who made up a lot of ground through the stretch but could not run down the leader. Darby Dan Farms Blue Label U. finished three and a. half lengths back in third place. Bushers Beam paid .60 as the co-favorite with Do Report with the crowd, estimated at 12,300, and covered the six furlongs in 1:10 over the fast track. Kenny Church rode the winner and kept the colt in front all the way on a warm and humid afternoon. The winner, a bay son. of Mr. Busher Guiding Light, who was bred by Miss H. niBgham, had won one race previously this year, scoring in a sprint at Pimlico, but was second to Jet Action over this course last week when the latter scorched the track with six panels in 1:09. Last year Bushers Beam won only two races, but was a good second to the capable Hasty Road in the Warren Wright Stakes. Bushers Beam went right to the front at the start of the race and widened his margin on the field down the backstretch. Huntsville and Do Report were immediately behind him in the early running. Bushers Beam had no trouble maintaining his lead around the turn and Church shook him upa couple of times at the head of the stretch. Do Report started to cut the margin in the run home, but it was obvious that he was not going to catch the winner. Blue Label II. came along for third money over New Dream, while Huntsville eventually finished last, fading badly in the last eighth of a mile.
