The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-02
lxOA DOESN'T
NEED MONUMENT
IN Bagley Has Few Sugges-
FionS to Offer on Memory
OF Famous Fighter.
(RI Gym RaqIey.)


nave been asked to assist at a
ument to the memory of George
on. I'm in with the play. Of course,
don't like it.
r. HUMPHREYS, the omnipresenr, al
inside the fire lines, never away
the center Joe. has written ne a
itful composition in F sharp, for
mo, the intentions of which are
evidently all to the sincerity
ID, but somewhat involved with the
phicus involve.
lere has been some pretty weird
ing over Dixon since he cashed in.
picture of Buffalo Costello sob
ms broken heart out over the cof-
and Johnny Summers kneeling on
pare floor with his head bowed in
er is going some. I'd like to get
prayer that Johnny said.
lis bucket of tear-soaked words
IS being splashed over DiXon's de-
could even be coupled in the bet
with the rot that the lady journal
spiiiing over Evelyn Thaw. And
crowding the limit. His giving
VS. in his face. He burns a white
e at the altar of her golden face"
pun translate that for me I'll stake
to it,
hen Dixon was taken TO Bellevue
ital I called attention TO the fact
he following Mondays Evening
and paid the just tribute to the
fellow as a fighter and to his
h as a man.
L didn't see any mad scramble
base anything TO him. / didn'e see
furniture vans backing uD to the
taT
IS or other delicacies of the season
the "squarest ana greatest little
er that God ever put the breatu of
into"
it Dixon dead started the folk to
busy.
1t that the folk haven't come
IS to Dixon living and needy. They
all right, and handsomely, more
once.
This Monument Thing.
q now this monument thing.
not hep to what is proposed
XIV of a monument The
re lDEon. proudly erect, his loins
I'd ne pale pink trunks, the FIVE
e wraps on his mitts and the mot
the base of the statute: With Il
ydown to None" Or Dixon. with
oat collar turned up, his little Der
d cooked over his starboard glim,
uttle Of suds in his fin, and the
%: "A fittle Bit Taken Away
What You Have. Takes Away
tile Bit More"
what particular niche of fame is
monument TO be placed? And in
h class of the monumental heroes
have been stood up in sounding
and enduring stone for posterity
lmire?
Dngside that of Caesar, perhaps.
ar was a fighter. and knocked olt
". And in the end Caesar got it
be neck from his pals. Or maybe
pey. There's d popular supersti-
that old boy Pomp was a smoke.
they didn't draw the color line IN
days. Neither did they i'm Dix
The Napoleonic Gag.
rhaps the Napoleonic gag woal1 be
better fit. Napoleon was little
", bot he never insisted on the
guy making weight. And when
took the final count he didn't have
price of a wooden overcoat. and
% be planted at the expense of his
ds-or, rather. his enemies.
IN there's the gentle Bobby Burns.
best he got was a monument.
only knocked out poetry. which
such a remunerative occupa ton
hooking out your brother. but he,
Dixon, had a large heart for his
rs. Burns was just about As big
cker as Dixon, and got trimmed
of his earnings much the same
sre may be con siderable rivalry
zen Boston common and Central
= as to which public resort cops the
e. Boston claims Dixon d. her
but IT VAS New York that finally
Dixon ready for the monument.
New York can go some on a JOB
lat kind.
hay have the wrong done ON all
1t nat not be exactly a InOuu-
but 4 headstOne.
&: aeadstone is all right. And Dixon
get one.
ould suggest that il BE- Of white
IL. plain and free of friils as Dix
as. And that, in addition to the
the sole inscription Be.
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