• The Athletics beat the White Stockings, 10-6, in Chicago

• Yesterday, the A's complained that the Sox watered down the third base line and today they complained that the Sox had watered the area around first base to prevent A's runners from stealing on emergency catcher Ed Hughes

• Hughes, a local man, was in there because their only healthy backstop, Ed McFarland, had injured himself on the bases yesterday

• McFarland was actually the team’s reserve catcher, but their first-stringer, Billy Sullivan, had split his right thumb on a foul tip a week ago and was still out of commission

• If the Sox did, in fact, soak the basepath, it didn't work as the A's stole eight bases in the game, including four by Topsy Hartsel