George appears as a timid professor who has a twin brother who is a prize fighter. A bully picks on the twin thinking he is George and gets a sound beating. Finally George is seized in place of the twin and made to enter the prize ring against a champion fighter. To protect himself he fills his shirt with sponges. During the fight he is knocked into the water bucket, the sponges expand, the water hits the other fighter and blinds him and George knocks him out.