1870 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 6 Aug. He took down the names of seven of these little imps, with the nicknames given them by their comrades. Here is a sample: Wm. Garvin, ‘Cod’; James Brady, ‘Slouch’; James Sullivan, ‘South-Paw’; Pat Naughton, ‘Snotty’;..Pat McNulty, ‘Lunch Chucker’.]

1871 Appletons' Jrnl. 16 Dec. 692/2 Why is the right hand the handiest? Is it so from instinct or education? for, anti-dexters and ‘south-paws’, or left-handed persons, are rare exceptions to the rule.

1891 Chicago Herald 24 July 6/1 The new south-paw..came to town yesterday.

1919 Trans. Amer. Surg. Assoc. 37 211 Just 100 per cent. of men who have lost a right arm become ‘south-paws’.

1970 H. McLeave Question of Negligence (1973) vi. 48 ‘Nobody told me he was a southpaw.’ Even the psychiatrist had..forgotten that the surgeon cut with his left hand.

2004 Lincoln (Nebraska) Jrnl. Star (Nexis) 17 Sept. x2 I always get a kick out of watching a southpaw play guitar.

1887 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 9 May 3/5 The battery work of Kerins and Ramsey was also good, although the south paw's sulkiness somewhat marred his work.

1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Apr. 8/5 Davis came up to bat... He faced the twirler right-handed. He always does with southpaws.

1922 H. Broun Boy grew Older vi That there were definite exceptions to the accepted theory that lefthanded batters do badly against southpaws.

1947 J. Gunther Inside U.S.A. xl. 657 Ah won't even go to the Polo Grounds unless a southpaw's pitchin'.

1959 Sunday Times 8 Nov. 32/6 In the ball parks all over the United States the so-called ‘diamond’, formed by the track between the bases, is always oriented to the same points of the compass, so that in whatever park a team is playing the pitcher on his mound will always have his right hand on the north side of his body; hence a left-hander is a ‘southpaw’.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June 1- b/2 The 6–0 lefthander, the only southpaw listed on the Angels' roster, struck out six and walked the same number.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 Mar. b13/3 The clear prize is..a 26-year-old southpaw whose tailing fastball was twice clocked at 100 miles an hour.

1925 Los Angeles Times 27 June 11/1 The husky Californian southpaw..fell before the clever slants of France's boy wonder, Rene Lacoste in straight sets.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. ii. 7/1 Rocket Rod Laver leads the greatest tennis show on earth into Boston Garden Monday night... The freckle-faced southpaw is the top-seeded player.

1989 Boston Globe (Nexis) 18 June 60 The southpaw bowls with his left hand but, because of his hook, switches to his right when he has to pick up the 7-pin.

2004 Shooting Sports Oct. 56/3 Consideration should be given to the switch from left to right hand operation, which will certainly appeal to the southpaws amongst us.

1886 Atlanta Constit. 15 Apr. 8/3 Savannah's wonderful south-paw twirler, Neal, is the youngest player in the Southern league.

1891 Cricket 29 Oct. 463/1 The Germantown man returned the ball like a flash to the wicket, and the ‘south-paw’ batsman was run out.

1913 Chicago Record-Herald 1 Mar. 12/2 Cal tried out Lefty Delano, a New Brunswick southpaw rookie.

1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iii. 126 It was swell for Studs to play,..knowing he had made that good kick,..to run back and pick one of Helen's southpaw kicks out of the air.

1949 Sun (Baltimore) 3 June 18/8 They would have been bunched against southpaw pitching.

1998 Boxing Monthly Apr. 6/1 His southpaw switch-hitting came from the back foot then.

1914 Washington Post 6 Dec. sp4/3 (heading) Great southpaw boxer would meet local lad at Ardmore Club, which seeks middleweight attraction.

1969 New Scientist 6 Nov. 277/2 Jack Bodell has just become the first south~paw heavyweight champion in British boxing history.

2005 D. E. Finger Rocky Lives v. 168 He was dark, sullen, hard punching, and he was boxing's first southpaw heavyweight champion.