The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 36

I 36 ThC Province Tuesday, February 6, 1990 United Press International MIAMI The PGA Seniors Tour, smarting from criticism by Jack Nicklaus, received a welcome boost over the weekend with a victory by crowd-pleaser Lee Trevino at the $400,000 US Royal Caribbean Classic. Trevino has committed himself to full-time duty on the seniors tour and will play only a limited schedule on the regular tour. Nicklaus plans few appearances as a senior, although he became eligible when he turned 50 on Jan. 21. Trevino turned 50 Dec.

1 and finished seventh in his first seniors event later in the month in Hawaii. Nicklaus, who played in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am on the regular tour over the weekend, has criticized the play on the seniors tour. He asked in a golf magazine why, if he had been beating the players on the circuit for 20 years, he should have to do it all over again. That brought a demand for an apology from Dave Hill, one of the game's most outspoken players. "I used to have a lot of respect for Jack," said Hill, who finished nine strokes off Trevino's pace Sunday.

"Evidently he has forgotten what humility is like. We never felt that Jack felt that way about us, that we are mediocre players. "If we beat up oh him a time or two, and we will, I sort of think he will take some heat. He owes us all an apology." Bruce Devlin expects the arrival of Trevino and Nicklaus, even on a limited basis, to help the seniors tour. "Trevino and Nicklaus are going to be a shot in the arm," said Devlin, who led the tournament after the first round but finished 11 shots back.

"They are going to keep us going for a while. Trevino and Nicklaus kind of represent the end of an era. Now we're going to get the guys who went to college to learn to play golf." Trevino said when he turned 50 he was going to make a lot of money as a senior, but he has modified that approach. "I'm not going to win every week," he said. "They're going to beat me and I'm going to beat them.

This is where my life is now. We're here to promote the senior tour. I'm going to do as much as I can. Arnold (Palmer) started it, and all these players kept it alive." Trevino also took time to count his blessings. "I've got a wonderful wife, a beautiful one-year-old daughter and I still look pretty good," he said.

"I'm as happy as I can be." fe fs''' i A 1 tft, rt 1 I 8 By Jim Jamieson Sports Reporter The boss says no changes are contemplated for the struggling Vancouver Canucks at this time. AP photo Lee Trevino is enjoying life on the Senior PGA Tour. Curling Hall opens wider ZD Canucks general manager Pat Quinn said yesterday the club sitting in 20th spot in the NHL isn't expecting to call up more younger players from its minor league affiliate in Milwaukee, although a couple are playing well enough to be considered. "We don't anticipate a callup," said Quinn. "(Rob) Murphy wasn't a planned callup.

We wanted to leave him (in Milwaukee) as long as possible to develop. "(Also) we have a big roster now (28 players). We're going to have to clean that off. It's not feasible to keep that many around." Quinn said that winger Todd Hawkins, who had a four-game stint with the Canucks in January, and right winger Jose Charbonneau are playing well enough on the farm to be considered for future promotion. Quinn also said the Canucks have had no trade talks with the Philadelphia Flyers, although Flyers g.m.

Bob Clarke was here to watch Sunday's game and assistant g.m. John Paddock was in attendance Staff Reporter THE GENIAL doctor, dentist Jim Armstrong, has been inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall ot Fame. Armstrong, who represented B.C. five times at the Brier, and was just eliminated from this year's Pacific Coast competition, was inducted as a curlerbuilder. Others entering with him are Hadie Manley of Edmonton, Elizabeth MacDonald of Charlottetown, Ina Light of Winnipeg and Bob Heartwell of Sarnia, Ont.

GOING BACK to her roots is former world and Olympic champion Debbie Orr, who is returning to Winnipeg in the summer with boyfriend Stan Walker. Orr, who has made the Lower Mainland her home for 12 years, got famous as second for Linda Moore. But her first national title was with Hal Tanasichuk, who won the Canadian mixed title one year. Walker was transferred to the Manitoba capital. THE PCCA seniors goes at Golden Ears in Haney in two weeks and the B.C.

mixed will be at Williams Lake the same weekend. The PCCA final eight will play a double knockout to determine its champion to play the BCICA Mike Chernoff of the Vancouver Club leads the parade, but will play another favorite, Jake Block of Abbotsford, in his first game. The PCCA will be represented by Murray Walker of Victoria and Steve Williams of Duncan, Doug Meger of Peace Arch and Fred Vandeperre of Vancouver in the mixed. The Interior will have Brian Scott of Kelowna, Don Bedard of Grand Forks, Ian Cordner of Vernon and Larry Gordon of Prince Rupert. CANUCKS GM PAT QUINN Thursday in Calgary.

"There have been no discussions," said Quinn. "They were out here more to look at Calgary than to look at our club." Queried about the club's aging defence, Quinn said improving the personnel there is "still a goal," but it's a matter of having the right people available. Asked about a report in a Calgary newspaper saying Quinn had an agreement with Flames g.m. Cliff Fletcher not to trade defenceman Paul Reinhart to the Edmonton Oilers, Quinn said: "Cliff's remark about what's in the contract that's inaccurate. "I'm considering a tampering charge (against Edmonton).

They've denied it, but that's where it came out of." Staff Reporter Cup finalist junior Adanacs. It includes many leading sports and community personalities from the Coquitlam area. Fridge led the group that applied to the WLA to have the letter of surrender of their franchise rescinded. Upon thorough review, the league agreed and has reassigned the franchise to the Adanacs. This all has Gill smiling.

"Now we can make the Feb. 28 draft of graduating juniors the major sports item for the league," he said. a familiar spot the Adanacs' own back yard. League commissioner Sohen Gill said a strong groundswell of community interest in the 25-year-old franchise resulted in a totally restructured organization which includes close relationships with the Coquitlam Minor Lacrosse Association and the highly-successful Adanac junior 'A' club. The new organization is headed by Ted Fridge, the former president of the Minto The Coquitlam Adanacs will remain an integral part of the Western Lacrosse Association.

Last week it was announced that the Adanacs organization had surrendered the franchise to the league in the hope that new owners could be found. The le4igwe announced yesterday that "new owners" hod indeed fome forward, and from More Sports on Page 53.