The University baseball team will play Trinity, N. C., at the Richmond League Baseball Club grounds, Richmond, this afternoon in the first game of the annual southern trip. This game is a comparatively unimportant one, but it will be useful in developing the team play which has suffered from the lack of outdoor practice this spring.

The team arrived in Richmond yesterday morning and held a hard practice on the Broad street baseball park. The work consisted of batting, fielding, and base running, and was fairly lively.

Since outdoor work began the University team has shown little improvement. The two games that were played with Vermont and Trinity showed the expected lack of unity and weak points in the individual play, but did little in getting the team together. This trip will be the means of developing a team, coaching and practice being the chief objects.

One more game will be played at Richmond after today, but it is not known with whom, as the Washington and Lee game scheduled for Wednesday has been cancelled. Daily practice will be held on the Richmond Club grounds until Friday, when the squad will leave for Annapolis, arriving there the same evening. The following day the team will play the Annapolis Naval Academy on the Annapolis diamond, and will leave for New York that night, returning to Cambridge on Sunday.

In the game this afternoon the University team will line-up as follows: Leonard, 3b.; Stephenson, c.; McCall, 2b.; Dexter, l.f.; McCarty, 1b.; Hellmann, c.f.; Currier, r.f.; Hartford, p.; Harvey, s.s.