Sports Friday, July 30, 1982 Page 12 The Michigan Daily Sims refuses to report Texarkana Ark. (AP) - Contract problems will keep Detroit Lions running back Billy Sims out of the team's National Football League training camp for now, he said in a radio interview here yesterday. "There are just some things that happened when I first went to Detroit that need to be ironed out before I go into camp, and hopefully they will be resolved real soon," Sims told radio station KOSY. HE REFUSED to elaborate on the problems, but said money was not an issue. "It is not as serious as a lot of people think it is, not as far as my wanting to renegotiate my contract. It's just having the general manager live up to his end of the deal as far as filling in my fourth year," Sims said. Sims also told KOSY that he is personally opposed to a threatened strike by the NFL Players Association, but said that if his Detroit teammates vote to strike he will support them. SHOULD A strike occur, said Sims, it will go into effect after the planned start of league play, "when all the tension is on football." Sims questioned the effectiveness of the union and doubted that the players would get the 55 percent of the league's gross receipts that the union is asking for. Sims said he has not seen "really anything that the union has done" for the players in his two years in the NFL. i Trillo sets new record PITTSBURGH (AP) - Philadelphia's Manny Trillo had just set the major league, single-season record for errorless ball by a second baseman at 87 consecutive games and he already was thinking about another mark - Joe Morgan's all-time record for that position. Trillo handled five chances flawlessly Wednesday night in helping the Phillies' post a 4-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, setting his third fielding mark in two nights. "I JUST HOPE he goes through the rest of the year and sets one every day," said Phils Manager Pat Corrales. Entering the contest, Trillo and Rich Dauer of Baltimore shared the major league record of 86 con- secutive games ina season without an error. Dauer set the record in 1970. Trillo tied the mark in the Phils' 4-0 loss to the Pirates Tuesday night. "Every time I break a record, I kind of relax. But tomorrow I've got to start worrying about Joe Morgan's record," Trillo said. "I guess if I break one I should break them all. I'll be proud of myself." Morgan tops in the fielding record books for second baseman over more than one season. He played 91 consecutive games over the 1977 and 1978 seasons without making an error. White talks about drugs - MENTOR, Ohio (AP)- Cleveland Browns running back Charles White, the Heisman Trophy winner at Southern California in 1980, said yesterday that a "chemical dependence" could have ruined his family life and his football career if he had not sought professional help. White refused to discuss the details of his problem, although earlier reports had said he was treated recently for cocaine addiction at a Los Angeles hospital. "IT (THE drug dependency) affected my play a lit- tle. .. to the extent that I was more annoying to my fellow workers for not being there mentally," White said. "The rehabilitation will give me a clear mind as to what's asked of me by the Browns." Sam Rutigliano, coach of the National Football League team, has said White would likely be a starter for the Browns this season. White's spot on the club was solidified during the offseason by the retirement of veteran Calvin Hill and the trade of Greg Pruitt to the Oakland Raiders. White said his decision to seek treatment was in- fluenced somewhat by the trade of Pruitt, and not at all by a recent Sports Illustrated article by former NFL player Don Reese, who wrote that cocaine was a widespread problem in the league. I Jackson ails as ree agent, he'll try to become a secret. agent By RON POLLACK three or four years, so it's something Seventh in an eight-part series "I didn't ever cover kicks this past/ Despite the fact that he led Michigan year, although I did in the East-West_- I in interceptions with six last season, Tony Jackson did not get selected in this year's National Football League draft. But Jackson was not about to give up his hopes of playing professional football. So when the Seat- tle Seahawks called the night the draft ended to see if he was interested in trying out as a free agent, Jackson was only too happy to oblige. "I was disappointed, but I'd already said to myself that if I didn't get drafted I'd try out with someone. "BEFORE the draft, I'd heard a few things from scouts and agents in- dicating that I'd go between the fourth and 10th rounds. I don't have any idea why I wasn't drafted." If he is to make the Seahawks' squad,: Jackson says he must improve his tackling skills. "I think that's the har- dest part. Especially in pro ball where the receivers and backs are bigger, faster and stronger." It isn't tackling receivers or running backs that has him concerned the most. Realizing that he is a rookie free agent, Jackson feels that he will spend more time trying to tackle kick-return men than receivers or backs. He says that he will also try his hand at returning kicks. "I THINK that if I make it, it will have to be based on my play on special teams," said Jackson. "That's a good way for a rookie free agent to make a team. I returned kicks at Michigan for a year, but not much after that when Anthony Carter came in. But I think I can return them. I haven't done it in Shrine Game. There's not much that you can work on when it comes to covering kicks. You just have to run down field, avoid blocks and make tackles." If he gets cut by the Seahawks, Jackson says that he would try out with another National Football League team or possibly in the new United States Football League should an opportunity to do so occur. He has, however, set a deadline. "I'd probably try out for two years, and if it doesn't work out by then I'd start making plans for a career," said Jackson. Jackson already has those career plans worked out in his mind. "I hope to come back to Michigan and go to school if I don't make it," he said. "I'm hoping to get into the school of social work. I would like to get into the FBI even- tually. I've always been interested in law enforcement and the FBI especially. I'd like to work in the field as a special agent investigating federal crimes. The FBI has a special school that lasts six months, so I'd go to that after the school of social work. The Seahawks have assigned Jackson the number 40, but 007 would probably be more appropriate. The attempt of Butch Woolfolk to make the jump from college to pro football will be featured tomorrow. FORMER WOLVERINE Tony Jackson (37) makes a spectacular intercep- tion in a game with South Carolina during the 1980 season. Jackson led the Wolverines in interceptions last year but was not selected in this year's NFL draft.