Possible Clues:

• Opening meant for training someone to do the dirty work
• Children captured by that mean, horrible enforcer
• Tips of curled Homburgs easily tailored, taken in by milliner who's cutting jobs locally
• Critical journalist blasted the match with article
• Critical journalist's article on fixing the match
• *Employee who does the firing
• Professional killer
• Milliner perhaps oversees how to make mark for a job-hunter, in a manner of speaking
• Baker buttonholed by milliner who does unpleasant work?
• Reviewing the match, an intemperate critic