
Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living,

as Gas-Pipe Kid / Bat Shugrue

as Ida Hunt

as Jimmy Hunt

as Kelsey Lewis

as Judge Drury

as Warden

as Lute Clotz

as The Kid's Father

as Murray Jessop

as Dud Adams

as Jimmy (at 8 years)

as Landlord