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Show RED SOX MANAGER CLOSES DEAL FOR FORMER COASTER BOSTON1, Aug:. IS. Word was received re-ceived tonight from 1-3. it. Barrow, manager of the Button American leag-ue baseball club, who is in St. Buuis. that he had closed a ileal with the "Wichita, Kan., club of the Western West-ern league lor Joe Wilhoit, who leads, that league in batting. In addition to a ca.sh payment for Wilhoit, Musser, a pitcher, has boon loaned to the Wichita club for the rest of the Western league, season. Wilhoit will report in Boston on ' September 15. Manager Barrow also announced that I-'Hcher Bill James had been released re-leased to the Chicago American league club on a waiver claim. 1 WICHITA, Kan., Aug. IS. Joseph Wilhoit, released today to the Boston Bos-ton Americans, lato in July broke the record for number of consecutive frames in which a player had made a safe hit, and has continued tho record all the month. With the second game yesterday at St. Joseph he completed his sixty-seventh game of consecutive consecu-tive hits. In these sixty-seven games he lias been at bat 291 times and obtained ob-tained 158 hits. Wilhoit entered organized or-ganized baseball four years airo, and in 11117 played with tho Boston Nationals Na-tionals for a time. |