Snakeville is all excitement. The world's champion pugilist is to arrive the next day and anybody who can stay three rounds with him is to receive $100. Slim is selected by his friends to try out the champion first, then, if he loses, the rest will try for the prize. The night of the encounter poor Slim is paralyzed with fright, and it is necessary to carry him into the ring. Then the fun starts. He is simply hammered into several different shapes, but manages to gain his feet each time before the count. Sophie, who is at the ringside nursing a toothache with a bottle of chloroform, suddenly has an idea. She slips Slim the bottle and he saturates his glove with it. In the next clinch, he holds the glove over the champion's mouth until he drops asleep. Slim is then declared the winner and carries home the "bacon."