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Show HD HOGGING IS NOW POPULAR SPORT Bug Is Catching and Is Now Fully Developed in Utah. MANY SPECIMENS HERE Traffic Cop Only Person Who Is a Match for Him. By W. D. RISHEL. ' ' Road hogging" is fast becoming tho most pi)inlar of outdoor sports in Utah. Baseball had bettor sit up and tako notice or it will bo relegated to tho background in the interest of ''road """-.hogging. ' ' At one time in tho not h'M distant past the full-fledged "road hog' ' was 'a man who drove a team of horses attached to a wagon, and who imagined that the driver of an automobile auto-mobile had no legal or moral right on tho highway. lint the bug seems to bo catching, and now the champion road hog is the owner of nn automobile who has no conception con-ception of tho rights of others. 'Generally Is Beginner. Generally, ho is a beginner in the artj of driving a motor ear. lie has learnod how to turn tho steering wheel to send tho car in a certain direction direc-tion and this is as far as his knowledge knowl-edge of an automobile goes. He thinks t he whole world is looking at him as ho proudly wobhles down the right-ot . way. The wobbling is always m tho middle of tho road, providing you do-you do-you meet him from the rear, and if yo umeet him coming in the opposite direction his wobbling is confined to the wrong side of the road. Should you attempt to pass Mr. Road Hog from the rear and give him tho customary warniug signal to that effect, ef-fect, he simply sjeeds up and by carefully, care-fully, or, rather, awkwardly, manipulating manipulat-ing the steering wheel, he makes it impossible im-possible to get past. If you do hap-4 hap-4 pen to find a stretch of road good enough to get past him he gives von a silly looking grin tiud thinks It is sport. Tho up-to-date rood hog likes to ply his avocation in a narrow canyon. Here he selects his road for speeding and "opens her wide," either up or down prade, regardless of the risk of an , accident ac-cident to a machine coming f roni' the opposite direction. T n making the sharp turns, if he happens to have a horn, he docs not know what it is for and fails to use it. Sometimes Mr. Road Hog conies to grief and has to stop his car to fix a puncture or look after some mechanical mechani-cal trouble. In this case he always fiuds a narrow place and then stops in the middle of the road.. Thus he effectually blocks the highway and is hajpy. His activities are not limited to the country roads, for he gets in his extra fine work in the cities. Here he selects se-lects tho air' "post or gasoline pump of some dealer who is trying to give the public service. He brings his car to a stop right iu froiut of the air post or gasoline pump and then goes visiting in the neighborhood. It does not matter mat-ter to him that some person has driven a mile to get at that 'air post or is badly in need of gasoline, he has preempted pre-empted that particular spot on the globe for the time being, so why should he worry f There is only one person on earth who ..is a , match for the . road hog and that is the traffic cop. Hero the road hog -foniPR" to grief and generally j appears before the judge the next morning morn-ing to explain. When they get out a new edition of the - dictionary they will probably insert in-sert a new word, and it will read something some-thing like this: ''Road Hog A person driving a motor mo-tor ear who has no consideration for the rights of others. M |