• The Athletics beat a team of local former college players known, naturally enough, as the Ex-Collegians, 7-3, in an exhibition contest at Columbia Park

• The Ex-Collegians showed up with only eight players so the A's loaned them newly-arrived pitcher Chick Fraser who played left field

• Bill Bernhard started for the A's and went three innings, giving up three hits and striking out two

• Billy Milligan, making his spring debut, pitched the middle third and struck out three while not giving up a hit

• Carson Hodge finished the game with four strikeouts and two hits surrendered

• Catcher Doc Powers was out for a second consecutive game after having been struck in the eye by a ball, though whether it had been batted or thrown was not reported

• Theodore Schilsky again took Powers' spot in the lineup

• Nap Lajoie, through his lawyer, made a court filing in advance of tomorrow's first hearing of the Phillies request for an injunction against his playing for the Athletics

• The filing listed four assertions to the effect that Lajoie was not bound to the Phillies for the 1901 season, that the Phillies had breached one of the provisions of his 1900 contract, that the Phillies had not given him sufficient time to examine the 1900 contract before requiring him to sign it, and that the Athletics had neither “induced” nor “persuaded” him to sign with them

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