April 18, 1901

• 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

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