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NBC EMPLOYEES Dll MIUTART SERVICE *
*0NE OUT OF FIVE EMPLOYEES IN SERVICE AS OF JUNE 30, 1942
• Back in 1928, a gangling 15-year-old lad named Dave Garroway, set the golfing world on its collective ear when he won his two first-round matches in the United States Amateur Tournament, qualifying as one of the eight best simonpures in the country. Today this same Dave Garroway, now an NBG sportscaster, ranks as one of the outstanding golf experts on the air.
Still, he probably would have been lost to radio if his first attemj)t to make a living hadn't failed with such a thud. Dave wrote a hook on pronunciation called “You Don't Say!” and spent two years trying to peddle it to schools before giving up the writing business for good.
He went to New York, where he got a job as an NBC page, thus making another of that group who was to reach fame via radio. After six weeks he was made a guide and two months later became a guide trainer. Then he enrolled in NB(!’s New' York announcing class, where he studied for seven months.
Garroway proved himself such a good puj)il that when a vacancy occurred at KDKA I Pittsburgh I in 1938, he w as rec
Afternoon "Tee" No Novelty to Garroway
Dave Garroicay (center) at a golf meet. He is slioicn with Lawson Little (left} interviewing Ed Dudley.
ommended for the job and joined the staff seven minutes after his audition.
When the amateur tournament was held in Pittsburgh in 1939, Dave started on the road to becoming broadcasting's golf ex})crt. His outstanding work in describing
the meet brought him to the attention of NBC officials and he joined the network’s Chicago announcing staff in 1940.
He gained national fame for the first time last year when he handled play-byplay broadcasts of the Tam o’Shanter Open in Chicago and this year moved into a top-ranking spot as a golf expert.
Dave was horn July 13, 1913, in Schenectady, New York. When he was still in rompers, Dave’s family moved to St. Louis where he grew up and graduated from Washington University. He was captain of the Lhiiversity’s golf team in 1933.
doling Garroway began playing golf when he was 12 years old, taking lessons from his dad, who is still one of the better amateurs in the Middle W'est. He soon became golfdom’s child prodigy. In addition to his show ing in the 1 . S. Amateur, Dave won the Missouri state championships in 1928 and 1930 and barely missed winning the WYstern Pennsylvania Amateur in 1940 after eliminating the state champion. He then dropped out of tournament play until this year when he competed in the amateur division of the Tam o'Shanter Open, doubling at the mike.