Scribbly #7 (1949)

Scribbly and Clover plan on going on a date. Later, O'Hara gets hit in the head with a baseball despite being at his desk and shouts at him. He wryly asks if this is a newspaper office or a baseball park, which Scribbly can tell because there aren't any bleachers! He angrily asks why he threw a baseball at his head, but Scribbly swears he didn't. He asks if Mr. Birdnest did it, only to find out that supposedly “dignified” head of their paper was throwing a baseball around, no less at his head. Mr. Birdnest walks out in a baseball uniform to say he was practicing in his Owls uniform and offers Scribbly come to his office to do much the same. O'Hara has a panic attack that his boss has gone insane, but Red calmly reminds him that Mr. Birdnest's lodge has had a baseball tournament every year since 1903, but he's never made the team until this year! Scribbly, in Birdnest's office, winds up for his Double Twist Zingeroo and immediately pitches it out of the open door to his office (in quite the interesting twisting motion) into O'Hara's head again. Mr. Birdnest says he'll definitely be the perfect pitcher, despite Scribbly telling him that he isn't part of his lodge, but Birdnest says they'll just let him join anyways. Scribbly points out he does have a date (not knowing the big game was that night,) but Birdnest tells him to just *tell his girlfriend that it's the big championship game** against the Elfs Club, so “she'll understand!” <br> Birdnest, without Scribbly actually agreeing, calls up his rival, Mister Cooley, to brag about their new pitcherhe's Clover's fatherhireddefinitelynobodythatdrop outif he can get another jobchiselerhard jawhurt his handpunches Bentley in the face**andbothtoo hardBentleybowlplanneddate*.