The Yomiuri Shimbun that reported this In vs Sha tournament tripled its number of issues by advertizing it with the whole company, placing the men of letters including Shofu MURAMATSU and others in witness's accounts of the games, and partly because the Shusai vs Karigane match became a scuffle from the beginning.
この院社対抗戦を掲載した読売新聞は社を挙げて宣伝し、観戦記には村松梢風ら文士を配し、また秀哉ー雁金戦が序盤から大乱戦となったことも手伝い、発行部数を3倍に伸ばした。