The White Hope (1912)
Tim Sharkey, a worthless good-for-nothing, can't find work and his spouse tirades gloriously in his ears while she rams the family wash around the tub. Tim sits at the table smoking and jawing and suddenly sees an ad in the paper for a pugilistic "white hope" who can earn a barrel of money trimming aspiring pugs. With beautiful visions of feints and uppercuts before him, Tim slowly dozes off, and has a most wonderful dream. He imagines himself the only and original "white hope," and sets out for the home of the fight promoter. On the way he demonstrates his ability by thrashing a bully who is abusing his wife, helps waft a trunk into a wagon that two men couldn't get off the ground, loads a cart with fallen crates with one wave of his hand and almost blows some fancy shrubbery out of the ground for self-amusement. Arriving at the home of the fight promoter Tim slams the punching-bag from its hook and almost kills the promoter with one blow, while he puffs out a lamp at a distance of ten feet. Forthwith the promoter escorts him to the Athletic Club and Tim is given a try-out with a pugilistic trainer. Once the gloves are on his hands, Tim proves a fizzle and is being beaten to a pulp when suddenly he rouses up to find his angry spouse amusing herself by breaking the washboard over his head. Tim tries to seek a haven of safety, but Wifie lifts him into a tub of hot suds and we leave Tim a sadder, madder and wetter man.
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