Cash Bentley is a former hurdling champ who has grown much too old to compete. When he goes to a dance he is taunted into putting on an exhibition which his wife Louise opposes. Later, Cahs forces his wife to help him run another course. He gives her a revolver to use as a starting pistol. As he starts the race, Louise pulls the trigger. He starts out but is hit by the bullet in midhurdle and dies.