The University baseball team will open its season this afternoon when it faces the Providence College nine on Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock.

Coach Slattery will start a team containing seven veterans of last season against the Rhode Island visitors. The two other positions, second base and right filled, will be filled by members of last year's yearling nine, Jenkins and Gordon.

The Crimson players have been held back a great deal by weather conditions this spring and the team will enter this afternoon's contest with but little outdoor drill. The Providence team, with the exception of its battery, is made up of new material and so little is known of their strength.

Goode, veteran of two seasons, will start in the box for the University but will probably be replaced by Gherke in the latter part of the game.

This will be the first of four games to whip the University players into shape before they start on the Southern trip on April 15. On Monday they will meet Northeastern College, Wednesday Middlebury, and Saturday Boston University.