- The ever-disreputable Reggie Gussle, a card cheat and wife thief, creates anarchy on the golf course.
- The ever-disreputable Reggie Gussle, mistreating his caddy and generally making an ass of himself on the golf course, receives a well-deserved golf ball to the noggin, temporarily rendering him disoriented. The offending golfer, Ambrose, and his wife feel terrible about the erring ball; but if they knew what Gussle was capable of, they'd have left him lying on the green. Later, at his social club, Gussle gets thrown out of a card game for cheating. Ambrose, ignorant of the exiting Gussle's dishonesty, greets him warmly before joining the game himself. Gussle suddenly has an idea that will give him revenge on the card players and get rid of Ambrose so that Gussle can make his moves on his gullible friend's beautiful wife.—J. Spurlin
- The ever-disreputable Reggie Gussle, a cad with a bushy moustache and an enormous behind, gets into a fight with a caddy and ends up pushing him so hard that the poor boy rolls into a female golfer, the wife of the large and intimidating Ambrose. He knocks her down, and Ambrose immediately pulls her off the seeming miscreant and has words with him.
In the next scene, husband and wife are again happily playing golf. Ambrose accidentally hits Gussle with his poorly aimed ball. A dizzy Gussle falls, spins around on his head and falls again. Ambrose and wife hurry over to him, lift him up and apologize. But the moment they let go of him, Gussle falls again, and Ambrose catches him by the necktie. Wifey dusts off Gussle, and the three of them depart.
The third scene shows Gussle at his club. He enters with a swagger and slaps his cane onto the card table where his fellows are playing. They invite him to play, despite his antics, which include using his cane as a pool cue and tapping the man across the table from him. The game begins in earnest. There's a gun on the table, but Gussle furtively removes the bullets. Then he takes off his shirt cuffs and uses them to steal chips from the man across from him.
We cut to Ambrose kissing his wife before leaving home. Then we return to the card game. Gussle takes some chewing gum out of his mouth and uses it to affix a card to the edge of the table where no one can see it. When he needs the card again, he pulls it off - and puts the chewing gum back in his mouth. Gussle continues to cheat by sneaking cards into his hat, but the fellow across from him spots his maneuver and immediately calls attention to it. The man takes his gun and points it in Gussle's face, but Gussle contemptuously strikes a match on it and lights his cigarette. The man tries to shoot Gussle in the head several times, but the card-cheat only laughs, takes the bullets out of his pocket and throws them on the table. Gussle waggles his great behind, uses his cane to snatch up his cuffs and walks away - but takes long enough to allow the man to put a bullet back in his gun and shoot Gussle where he sits. He is rubbing his sore behind on a table, when Ambrose comes in and says, "Come, let's join the game." Understandably, Gussle declines.
Ambrose joins the game as Gussle stands in the lobby and remembers Ambrose's beautiful wife. A dissolve shows us his vision - the lady golfing alone. Gussle gets an idea to steal his friend's wife and take revenge on those who were rude enough to object to his cheating. He writes a note. It says, "Chief: There's gambling and crooked card play at the social club. [Signed] Reggie Gussle."
Gussle chortles at his own cunning as he walks outside and puts his shirt cuffs back on - but they're still attached to his cane. A policeman stops by and sees the suspicious-looking bounder acting suspiciously and taps him with his baton. Gussle gets the cop to remove the cane from his cuffs. With his hands free, Gussle gives the officer the letter and requests that he rush it to the chief. As the cop walks away, Gussle deliberately trips him with his cane, but he's gone by the time the officer stands up again.
Soon, the cops have arrived at the club, and Gussle watches from behind a wall as they enter. One of the players sees them coming and alerts the rest of his fellows - all but one. They sneak out as an oblivious Ambrose remains at the table, happily collecting his chips. The police walk into the room and arrest poor Ambrose, displaying their usual brutality by poking him in the behind with their batons.
Now, Ambrose is before the judge, who sentences him to thirty days. Ambrose promptly faints, as two policemen drag him away and throw him into a cell with two other prisoners, both drunkards. One of them tips his hat and tries to leave, but an officer pushes him back. The two drunkards try to harass poor Ambrose, each grabbing an arm. But they only succeed in getting all three of them to fall back and knock over a bench as they hit the ground.
Gussle soon arrives at the police station. The cop outside stops him and removes the cigarette from Gussle's mouth, throwing it to the ground. He waits until Gussle walks in before stooping down to take the cigarette for himself. But Gussle peeks out and slaps the cop on the rear before ducking back inside.
Gussle signs in. As he is bent over, a cop slaps him on the behind with his baton, which he uses to point something out to the man. Gussle casually puts his hat on it. The cop angrily gives Gussle back his hat and shows him to the cell. Ambrose is happy to see his false friend. They shake hands on either side of the cell door as the cop closes it, ripping their handshake apart. Ambrose writes his wife a note and gives it to Gussle. The two of them exchange several warm - even melodramatic - handshakes, all of which are hypocritical on Gussle's part. Finally, the cop arrives, letting Gussle know it's time to leave. Gussle walks out of the police station, but not before poking the judge with his cane. The judge throws his gavel at the dastard. Gussle calmly walks back into the station and lightly taps the old man with the gavel and leaves again.
Back in Ambrose's cell, poor Ambrose must suffer the singing of one of the drunkards as the sot pretends his straw hat is a guitar or banjo. Ambrose shows the annoying character his fist, and the man slowly puts his straw hat (which has a whole on the top) on said fist and walks to the other side of the cell.
Meanwhile, Gussle arrives at the home of Ambrose's wife. He gives her the note. It says, "Darling Wifey - Am leaving on unexpected business. Will be gone thirty days. [Signed] Your hubby, Ambrose." She is distraught at this sudden and unexpected separation. Gussle says, no doubt disingenuously, "He told me to keep you company." He grabs her golf bag, and the two of them leave to play golf.
Unfortunately for the scoundrel, the chief arranges Ambrose's release. He even shows Ambrose the note Gussle wrote. An angry Ambrose vows revenge.
At the golf course, a piece of paper gets stuck to Gussle's golf club, and the clown spends some time trying to get it off the club and then off his fingers. Despite this foolishness, he and the wifey manage to have a good time.
But not for long. Ambrose stops by his house to get his rifle. With murder in his heart, he goes to the golf course and looks for his false friend. He finds the cad just as he is bending over to swing his club. Ambrose shoots him in the rear, but Gussle thinks wifey has playfully pinched him. He giggles like a schoolgirl for a few moments and then bends over again. Ambrose shoots him a second time, and Gussle practically falls over himself with coquettish glee. Ambrose shoots again, this time knocking Gussle's hat from Gussle's head to the wifey's. Gussle indignantly removes the hat from her head. A fourth shot hits Gussle in the rear again. The cad responds by stealing a kiss on the cheek from the wifey. She angrily throws the clubs to the ground and slaps him across the face before stalking away. Gussle follows her and tries to apologize. But Ambrose comes up from behind with a flagpole and stabs it into the churl's enormous bottom.
Gussle spins around and hits wifey in the face with the flag. He sees Ambrose and runs madly away. He runs in between three female golfers, spins around to see if Ambrose is following and hits one lady golfer in the face with the flag, then spins around again and hits the two other ladies in the face with flag. He runs off again.
He flees across a bridge and knocks down a man who is carrying two heavy bags. One of them falls and hits a man who is underneath the bridge. Gussle climbs over the poor fellow on the bridge and continues to run. Gussle stops to flirt with a cute lady golfer, but the man on the bridge gets up and throws his bag at Gussle. It falls on the flagpole, driving it further into his bottom. We cut back to Ambrose, who is consoling his wife. And then we cut back to Gussle, who is running off into the distance, flagpole, bag and all.
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