Baby Early is the mascot tor Avon College. Babe, as she is affectionately called by the students and professors alike, is a mischievous lass who has just reached her tenth birthday. All the students in the college were friends of Babe, but Jack, the captain and star sprinter of the track team, who was in love with Babe's big sister, Elsie, was her favorite. She was devoted to him with a devotion only children can display. On her birthday Jack had given her a watch, which made him her hero for life. Now, as young as she was, Babe knew far more about athletics in general than many persons years her elder, but track athletics in particular, because of Jack and because she loved to run and jump herself, she knew from the ground up. She could tell when a runner was out of form and off his stride as well as the best trainer. Now Jack was a big, healthy, happy-go-lucky fellow, with not a care in the world. He was naturally a great runner, consequently hated the strict training requisite to perfect him. On the eve of the annual meet with the rival college, Vernon, Jack proposes to Elsie, but Babe interrupts the proposal and tells her sister not to accept Jack unless he wins the big race against Vernon. Vernon has another great sprinter, who also loves Elsie, but finds that Jack is first in her affections. He then determines to put Jack out of the way for the big race. In the meantime Jack, anxious to win both the race and the hand of Elsie, begins a hard course of training. Will, his rival, sets plans for Jack's downfall. On the morning of the day of the big race three men in an automobile see Jack walking along the road. They stop the car and jump out and pounce upon him. He is overpowered and taken to a lonely shanty on the outskirts of the town, bound and gagged and locked in. Babe, who had been out with her pony, saw the men disappear in the machine and followed them to the shanty. She manages to crawl through a small opening in the floor and frees Jack from his bonds. At the same time the trainers and members of the team become alarmed at the absence of Jack and start a search for him in vain. The hour of the big race is on. when Jack comes running onto the field and wins over his nefarious rival. Babe had aided him to effect his escape. As the winner of the race Jack claims his mascot for life, Elsie.