Cricks and Martin comedy.
Lady will marry man if he wins the marathon (very long shorts!). He attempts a short cut. Runs into a woman hanging out laundry. Farmer in smock with milk across shoulders. Man runs across rivers, is fired at etc.
Two men and a lady in a big floppy hat stand outside of a white clapboard village shop, they read a poster tacked to the side wall of the store. 'Fieldtown Harriers: the race for the Challenge Cup will be from Coddenham to Hankwell, Go as you please, first at the post proclaimed the winner. Entrance 1/- (shilling) Names to be entered below. The shorter man kids the taller man, that he should enter. He looks stubborn and bashful and walks away embarrassed. The lady joins in the fun and pulls out her notebook and writes in it. 'Dear Muggy, Enter the Cup Race. If you win I will marry you instead of Mr. Robinson. Be a Man.' She gives it to a young boy to run after Muggy. Mr. Robinson and the girl laugh.
The boy catches up to Muggy walking along the pavement and still talking to himself. He reads the note and makes a lot of large gestures, he walks away kissing the note. Two men in long shorts, white t-shirts and running numbers pinned to their fronts and backs shake hands with a man in a buggy. The buggy gets driven behind the start line and all the runners line up, there are about ten men. They ready themselves, Muggy is number seven, and he makes a false start, all the other men pull him back and explain that he needs to wait for the flag. He is looking back at the man in the buggy when the flag goes down and he gets a bad start. The racers run along a path beside a wooden wall, Muggy bringing up the rear, running with high knees and slouched shoulders. The runners pass a stile, and Muggy, at the back of the pack, stops and points animatedly from himself to the stile. Then he climbs over it, taking a short cut. [Missing some frames, as it skips to]: Muggy runs into a man carrying some baskets. The baskets go flying