====== April 16, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	Under threatening skies, the rain held off long enough for the Athletics to beat [[Georgetown University]], 13-6, in an exhibition contest at Columbia Park

•	[[Wiley Piatt]] started the game, giving up four runs on three hits, before stepping aside for [[Bill Bernhard]] who finished the contest

•	[[Jack Hayden]], [[Nap Lajoie]], and [[Lave Cross]] each had three hits to pace the A's

===== Transactions =====

•	With [[Pat Crisham]] out indefinitely because of illness and [[Socks Seybold]] playing out of position at first base, the team signed former Washington Senators first baseman [[Charlie Carr]]

•	Carr batted .192 in 73 at bats with the 1898 Senators, but was more productive last year with Toronto in the Eastern League, batting .327 in 490 at bats

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

|**April 16, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Exhibition Game|||||||||||||| |
|Georgetown at Philadelphia Athletics|||||||||||||| |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|Georgetown|  0  |  0  |  0  |  4  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  1  |  0  |  -  |  6  |  9  |  3  | |
|PHL|  3  |  4  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  3  |  0  |  2  |  x  |  -  |  13  |  14  |  2  | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|Ballpark|Columbia Park||||||||||||| |
|City|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|700||||||||||||| |
|Managers|unknown (Georgetown), Connie Mack (PHL)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|McKay (Georgetown), Wiley Piatt (PHL)||||||||||||| |

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