Joe Wakefield and Bill Tucker combined with visitors Ellasue Chaitt and Mark Stein to win the Knock Outs. Vera Petty and Roman Smolski, the runners-up in that event, then won the Swiss Teams with Michael Cornes, formerly of Bermuda and Henry Bethe, of Ithaca, New York.

The latters' win clinched the battle for best achievement by a local player, Petty and Smolski happily sharing the honour of claiming the Norman Bach Trophy.

The Bermuda Trophy, for best achievement by a local player starting with fewer than 20 points, was won by Wendy Gray. The Maude Lines Trophy for best visitor went to Henry Beth.

An all-Bermuda team clinched Flight B of the Swiss Teams event -- the third victory in four years for Joe Taussig, Charles Hall, and Eddie and Stephanie Kyme. The Flight C Teams was won by a team from Toronto.

Earlier, the Bermuda team of Barbara Huntingdon, Nea Willits, Theresa Howard and Betty White won Flight Three of the week-long Knock Out Team event and Bruce Fenton and Desmond Nash performed well in Flight D of the Stratiflighted Pairs.

In all, 799 players -- 100 from Bermuda -- took part in the competition which was staged at the Southampton Princess.