- Zslamsco, a Turk, champion wrestler of the world, is touring America giving exhibitions and meeting all comers. Playing a rural town the "Terrible Turk" is seized with a violent toothache and the doctor states that he will be unable to appear that night, and he informs Binks, his trainer, of this fact. Binks rushes off to the theater to inform the manager. The manager is talking to three rubes who have been attracted by the billboards, which state that Zslamsco will throw three men in ten minutes or forfeit $100. The rubes purchase tickets. The manager, learning of the Turk's illness, rushes off to the hotel with Binks at his heels. Upon arriving in the Turk's room, he proceeds to upbraid him for his cowardice. A sudden light dawns upon the manager. Why not put Binks on in the Turk's place? He drags Binks out of the hotel, down to the theater, where the manager insists and tells Binks his plan. He gets the stage carpenter, who is a great sleeper, to bore a hole in the stage, the idea being for Binks to get his opponent down over the hole and the carpenter is to prod the rube aspirant for the $100 with a hat pin, after which Binks will be able to defeat him easily. Binks is introduced to the audience. One of the rubes clambers to the stage but is soon thrown to the floor, and the carpenter hearing him fall, prods him with a pin and Binks easily puts his shoulder to the mat. The next aspirant's shoulders go down and he rushes over the footlights screaming with pain, Binks glares at his third opponent. Binks and the rube wrestle all over the stage. Binks gets him over the hole several times, but the rube manages to get out of danger. The manager stamps on the floor to attract the carpenter's attention, and seeing his $100 leaving him, he rushes in the cellar, where he finds the custodian of the pin sound asleep. He awakens him and the carpenter, hearing a fall, proceeds to prod viciously. But the rube had turned the tables and has Binks over the hole, and when he received the pin prods he immediately allowed himself to be put down and out. At this moment the manager rushes onto the stage, only to be greeted by demands from the rube. He reluctantly pays the money.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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