In a comparatively weak field, he won the gold medal at the 1934 British Empire Games ahead of the local opposition in London, throwing 60.02 m (196 ft 10+3⁄4 in) to beat South Africa's Harry Hart (who was winner of the shot put and discus that year).

[5] Dixon spent time in the Vancouver Police Force[6] and played lacrosse with the New Westminster Salmonbellies with whom he competed for the Mann Cup in 1930.

[7] At one point, he enrolled in a school for machine gunners near Los Angeles and joined a group of California-based mercenaries and headed to China.

[7] Dixon did two tours as a pilot in China, and allegedly became the right-hand man of influential Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin, according to newspaper reports.

[6] Serving as a test pilot in the RCAF, he died in an airplane crash in Grosse Isle, Manitoba during World War II.