The story
“Walter Bodewick, a young business man, has the misfortune to fall madly in love with Vivian Webster, whose father, an Olympian hero of the last generation, positively stipulates that his daughter shall marry none but an athlete. Bodewick is bored to death by games. However, he tries to win over his sweetheart’s parent by escorting Vivian to contests and out-of-door sports, where he works himself into a white heat of enthusiasm. Meanwhile, he takes every possible opportunity to propose to the girl, but in each attempt is forestalled. At last, one day, by mistake, he proposes to a spinster, whom he mistakes for Miss Webster. Miss Carlotta Cummings rapturously accepts him. Though Walter makes his escape, he is hounded by the disappointed lady. At the command of Vivian’s father, Bodewick enters the Marathon race. Miss Carlotta pursues him to the course. Bodewick dashes off with the starter’s pistol, possessed of the single thought of fleeing the insistent spinster. He runs rings around everything on the road and makes a new record for marathoning. Walter wins Vivian. But Miss Carlotta, transfers her affections to old Mr. Webster, and Bodewick comes in for an unwelcome mother-in-law.”
Summary from Reel Life · 14 August 1915
