====== April 18, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	The Athletics beat the [[Atlantics]], a local amateur side, 17-9 at Columbia Park

•	[[Wiley Piatt]] started for the A's and went three innings, giving up a run on three hits

•	[[Carson Hodge]] went the rest of the way and pitched well, except for a disastrous five-run seventh inning

•	[[Phil Geier]] had four hits, including a double and a triple

•	Needing a catcher to spell [[Doc Powers]], the only backstop on the roster, manager [[Connie Mack]] gave Wissahickon catcher [[Theodore Schilsky]] a turn behind the plate

•	New first baseman [[Charlie Carr]] missed today's game because of illness

•	The team's three chief officers, [[Connie Mack]], [[Ben Shibe]], and [[Frank Hough]] filed a statement with the Court of Common Pleas denying "they they are or ever have been co-partners, trading as the Philadelphia American League Base Ball Club''

•	In the statement, they added that they had never "persuaded" [[Nap Lajoie]] to sign a contract and that the Phillies had never given them "due notice" that Lajoie had an exclusive contract with them

•	Pitcher [[Chick Fraser]] reported to the team

===== Today's Game =====

|**April 18, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Exhibition Game|||||||||||||| |
|Atlantics at Philadelphia Athletics|||||||||||||| |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|Atl|  1  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  1  |  1  |  5  |  0  |  0  |  -  |  9  |  15  |  8  | |
|PHL|  2  |  5  |  1  |  3  |  0  |  2  |  0  |  4  |  x  |  -  |  17  |  16  |  4  | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|Ballpark|Columbia Park||||||||||||| |
|City|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|unknown||||||||||||| |
|Managers|unknown (Atl), Connie Mack (PHL)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|Balzer (Atl), Wiley Piatt (PHL)||||||||||||| |


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