John Hatton

A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

An unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.

Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living,

Helen, wrongly suspected of murder, escapes to the refuge of Jim's Ranch, where love soon blooms.