Moreover, for the establishment of the Ninth Higher School, a fierce enticement battle took place between Niigata and Matsumoto, and it became a series of smearing campaigns,
また、第九高等学校の設立をめぐっては新潟と松本のあいだで熾烈な誘致合戦がおこり、中傷合戦にいたる泥仕合化した。