The Brewers ended a five-game losing streak by beating the Athletics, 6-5, at Columbia Park.

Nap Lajoie was managing the club on the field while Connie Mack was attending to matters regarding the assault on his brother, Dennis McGillicuddy.

Team attorneys submitted a petition to the Court of Common Pleas announcing their intention to incorporate as the “American Base Ball Club of Philadelphia.” The petition included the team's statement of purpose as “the organization, equipment, and maintenance of a club for the playing of base ball and other games in which a ball or balls are used, through the United States, and elsewhere, and the purchasing or leasing of a lot or lots of ground in the city of Philadelphia, state of Pennsylvania, with the appropriate improvements thereupon to be erected, upon which public exhibition of various games of ball and all other athletics games or sports may be had.”

Team ownership consisted of 500 shares divided among five people with a total capitalization of $50,000. The five shareholders were: George W. Jackson (200 shares), Benjamin F. Shibe (165), Cornelius McGillicuddy (125), William Y. C. Anderson (5), and John F. Hoffmeister (5).