====== April 17, 1901 ======

===== News =====

•	The Athletics beat [[Wissahickon]], 16-4, in an exhibition contest at Columbia Park

•	Roxborough right-hander  [[Pete Loos]] started the game for the A's on a tryout basis and went all the way, giving up four unearned runs on eight hits and no walks, while striking out three

•	[[Charlie Carr]] made his debut at first base and looked good, making some nice plays in the field and rapping out two hits at the plate

•	To make room for Carr, [[Socks Seybold]] moved to left field, pushing [[Phil Geier]] to center and [[Fred Ketchum]] to the bench

•	[[Nap Lajoie]] had four hits, including a double and a triple

•	Pitcher [[Billy Milligan]] reported to the team, a few days later than expected

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

|**April 17, 1901**|||||||||||||| |
|Exhibition Game|||||||||||||| |
|Wissahickon at Philadelphia Athletics|||||||||||||| |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| |  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  | |  R  |  H  |  E  | |
|Wiss|  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  2  |  -  |  4  |  8  |  7  | |
|PHL|  2  |  5  |  5  |  3  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  0  |  x  |  -  |  16  |  13  |  7  | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|Ballpark|Columbia Park||||||||||||| |
|City|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania||||||||||||| |
|Attendance|unknown||||||||||||| |
|Managers|unknown (Wiss), Connie Mack (PHL)||||||||||||| |
|Starting pitchers|Cunningham (Wiss), Pete Loos (PHL)||||||||||||| |


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