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- "Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind when he meets the sister of the pitiful Paramlee team and goes to college there, just as his father, an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Wade, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team, but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton. This puts "Red" between a rock and a hard place.
- Gladys falls for a prizefighter who has invited his entire hometown to watch his fight in New York City. However, he gets crazy jealous when he sees Gladys at the fight sitting next to Jimmy. After the bout is over, he sets out for the hotel to teach Jimmy a lesson.
- A gang of racketeers, with the aid of a high-ranking city official has control of a big-city, and the police plant an undercover cop to gather evidence against the hoodlums - except the police keep telling the wrong person what they are up to.
- Galen is unjustly sent to jail for beating up Rags Dempster. K.O. bails him out on condition that he trains to fight. Galen soon finds out that he has a knack for the knockout.
- ZaSu falls for a wrestler and drags Thelma to his next fight.
- Gale is kidnapped, apparently through Kelly's maneuvers, but it is only a scheme for Kelly to get more money to bet on Gale.
- Tom Granger is seen finding a boarding house preparatory to entering college. The presence of Nita O'Neill, the landlady's granddaughter, in a poorly furnished one dictates his choice. He meets her a second time when she is serving soda in her grandfather's store, and finds an enemy in Merton Randolph, who repeatedly insults him. They go to the Court, put on the gloves and have a terrific set-to which Tom finally wins. Then Nita and he walk home together.
- A barge fight between Gale and the heavyweight, Red Mack, is broken up by the police.
- Gale Galen comes into possession of a baby deserted by a despondent mother. He and his chums decide to care for the child.
- George and Stanley are competitors in a swimming race this time and as usual Stanley tries to pull some crooked work to prevent George from winning, but of course fails. The title, a travesty on a successful play, refers to the fact that Stanley hires a woman with this name to aid him by claiming she is George's wife.
- Tod Raleigh, learning that Grayson needs $500 for an operation for his mother, uses a confederate and has him plant this amount in Grayson's clothes during a swimming race at a swell garden party. Through the alertness of Sally, the real thief is captured and Grayson vindicated.
- A high-society boy falls for a girl from a family of acrobats. He invites her to his home to meet his parents.
- Gladys and Sadie are finally back from their trip to Europe. Gladys meets Mike, a young but superstitious prizefighter who won't fight in his upcoming bout because it will be his 13th one. Since Jerry is his manager and Jimmy is his trainer, Gladys decides to try to help him get past his superstition and fight in the match.
- Finding his friend, whom Galen seeks in the village, gone, the newcomer to town secures his friend's old position of soda clerk in a drug store. There are incidents leading up to Galen being forced to deliver ice cream to the home of a village belle who is giving a party and has refused to allow her girl friend to ask the soda clerk to come as a guest. It happens, however, that just as Galen is leaving he sees his girl being annoyed by an outsider, known to the sporting world as K. O. Kelly, champion welter weight. One blow from Galen and out goes Kayo, which interests Kayo's manager to the extent that he keeps an eye on Galen, with a purpose.
- Gale gets into movies and plays the hero in a Western melodrama in which Patricia and Rosemary rival each other to be his leading lady. There are some good comedy touches as Nate, the fighter's manager, suddenly becomes a dude. The number ends with a thrilling prize fight in which Gale is the winner, thus insuring his popularity in the film he has made.
- The action centers around a steeplechase. George O'Hara, as Ted Adams, makes the crack that he'd certainly like to ride one of the horses, and Stanley Taylor, an expert horseman, calls his bluff in front of Georgie's film sweetie, Alberta Vaughn. Thereafter the hero industriously tries to avoid an assignment as jockey, because he never mounted a horse in his life and is afraid of them in the bargain. All efforts at escape fail and George goes through with it, winning the race.
- A benefit performance arranged by Al Cooke and Kit Guard in which their roughneck pals in a social club don ballet skirts and sing the Floradora Sextet, furnishes the basis for the title of this number of "Fighting Hearts" series. The plot shows the villain as threatening to foreclose a mortgage held by the hero's landlady, hence the benefit performance. Foiled along this line, his henchman attack Alberta Vaughan and, in their attempts to get the money, imprison her in a cellar and gradually fill it with water. Of course, the hero rescues her in the nick of time.
- Gale is mysteriously summoned to Chinatown where he fights his way to Patricia in distress as he believes, but it proves to be only a big surprise birthday party in his honor.
- Gladys decides to help a struggling playwright who's about to be evicted from the hotel for not paying his bill. She sets up a meeting between the playwright and a theatrical producer who agrees to look at the young man's new play, but the producer turns out not to like the play because he thinks its plot is "improbable".'
- Gale Galem, pugilistically known as "Six-Second" Smith, almost turns motion picture actor as a means of forcing "Red" Mack, the champ, into a fight.
- Ex-Champion Gale Galen, his trainer and manager advertise for a mother. This brings a deluge of applicants, but only one seems to strike the fancy of the pugilistic trio.
- Round 12 finishes the second of the Fighting Blood Series. Gale's great fight with the light-heavyweight champion of the world comes off and has some exciting details. The long war between the blonde and brunette ends and the latter, Patricia, elopes with Gale in time to have a double wedding as Rosemary marries her director.
- Mazie's two pals decide they don't like her boss's girl and plant Mazie's picture in a bathing suit on his desk. He fires her. She aids her pals as detectives at a swell dance in guarding the jewels. The pals, Al Cooke and Kit Guard, turn out to be rotten detectives, for jewels are found in Mazie's room. It develops that they have been placed there by a burglar who was in league with the boss's sweetheart. Mazie is vindicated and gets her job back again.
- Bill Grimm, a taxicab driver, falls in love with Barbara Baxter, from Lyons, New York, the minute she steps off the train, and has him take her to Mrs. Whipple's boarding house, in spite of the interference by Jack Fairfax, Bill's rival. Boarders at Mrs. Whipple's include a prizefighter named "Butch,", his manager O'Brien, and Pansy the maid. This first entry in the series introduces the leading characters in the future films, and a few comical interludes.