From Champion to Tramp (1915)
Shirley Christy, Champion Mile Runner of the World, has become a tramp and finds himself in the mountains of Arizona. Looking back over the cause of his present condition, we see his enemy, Anderson, strike down a running mate at one of the international meets. Shirley is falsely accused, tried and condemned, although he is innocent. His enemy has the Board of Directors of the International Athletic Club to dismiss him for all time, and as a tramp he wanders aimlessly about the mountains and the deserts heartbroken. His old gray-haired mother is pining away and praying for her son's return. Shirley strikes a new mining camp where he seeks work, and to his amazement discovers Anderson. Anderson is about to enter a fixed race in the new mining camp, and at the last moment determines to double-cross his running mate, when Christy stumbles upon the runner that Anderson has doped and takes his place, winning again from his enemy. The runner, after recovering, tells the sheriff of the incident and produces the bottle which Anderson had taken the medicine from which incapacitated Jamison, the runner. In the fight which follows, Christy saves the owner of the mine and his daughter from serious injury and perhaps their lives. He is rewarded by being taken in by the mine owner and given a position. The daughter feels strangely drawn to this man, who finally, through a confession secured from Anderson, proves the guilty must pay the penalty for their crimes and virtue its reward secures. With a loving thought and yearning for his dear mother, he tells the girl of her, and we leave him as it was meant to be, every inch a man and no longer the tramp.
All Releases
Domestic
–
–
International
–
–
Worldwide
–
–
| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Romaine Fielding | Director |
| Romaine Fielding | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
|---|---|
| Romaine Fielding | |
| Vinnie Burns | |
| Jack Lawton | |
| Roscoe Karns |
