 The following day, Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis issued a statement stating that no player who had agreed to throw a baseball game, or sat in on meetings to that end, would ever play professional baseball thereafter.In 1928, Friend presided over the case against Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson and three codefendants, ordering them to repay to the city over $2 million that had been paid to real estate experts.He was reversed in his judgment against Mayor Thompson and one of the co-defendants by the Illinois Supreme Court.