Several miscues by Athletics outfielders contributed to a 6-4 loss to the Chicago White Stockings at Columbia Park.

Dave Fultz and Phil Geier let a Fielder Jones blooper to right fall between them as a pair of runs scored in the sixth and Geier later charged a Billy Hoy line single to right a little too exuberantly and turned it into a two-run triple as the ball took a big hop over his head