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

• The A's had a chance to tie in the ninth, but with two outs and Nap Lajoie on third, Harry Davis popped out to end the game

• Manager Connie Mack was absent from the dugout while attending to matters regarding the assault on his brother, Dennis McGillicuddy, and Nap Lajoie was handing the reins in his absence

• 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)

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