By launching a general attack, the East team took the lead 72 points to 66 at the end of the sixth day of the "spring" main sumo tourney at the Kokugikan, Tokyo, on January 15.
    The powerful trio from the tatsunami Club, namely Futabayama, Haguroyama and Nayoroiwa, all of West team, continued to win, maintaining their undefeated records since the first day.
    Tamanoumi, also of the West team, who kept up an unmarred record until the fifth day, suffered his first defeat on the sixth day at the hands of Akinoumi, the only undefeated grappler on the East team.
    After suffering defeat on three successive days, Minanogawa won on the sixth day from Aobayama.
    The east team out rivaled the West team 17 points to 7 on the sixth day.

    The three successive defeats of Minanogawa, "yokozuna", the highest ranking wrestler in the East team, from the third day to the fifth day in the current spring main sumo tourney have come to be taken up as a question not only among the fans, but also among the officials of the Dai Nippon Sumo Association.
    As the sixth day, January 15, happened to be a servants' holiday, many shop-boys were among those who besieged the Kokugikan on the night of January 14. The doors were thus opened again at 9.50 p.m.
    All the admission tickets for the sixth day were sold out as early as 2.30 a.m., January 15.
    Included among the group visitors were students from the military preparatory school and the naval signal school.
    The leading pairings on the seventh day, January 16, are: