• A scheduled double header with the Tigers was rained out

• American League president Ban Johnson ruled that catcher Farmer Steelman was ineligible to continue to play with the Athletics

• While Steelman had been in a dispute with Brooklyn and their manager Ned Hanlon, he was also still under contract with Hartford in the Eastern League, thus Johnson's decision

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