• The Athletics split a pair in a double header with the White Stockings in Chicago
• Chicago's Roy Patterson bested A's starter Bill Bernhard in the first game, 2-0
• Former A's pitcher Wiley Piatt faced his old team in the second, but the A's scored four runs in the ninth to take the lead and held off a Chicago rally in the bottom half to win, 10-9
• The Inquirer reported that Connie Mack had signed two players, former Chicago National League catcher Tim Donahue and a semi-pro infielder named Arthur Bourgeois, though neither signing was enthusiastically corroborated by other sources