Maureen O'Berg pulled off one of the most stunning victories in the long history of the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Club Invitational yesterday when she beat former champion, and top local player, Gill Butterfield 6-1, 6-0 to take the Ladies 45 singles title at the Coral Beach Tennis Club, writes Joe L. Brown.

It was not so much that the seeding turning out to be correct, as the Delaware resident was seeded one while Butterfield was seeded two, but the thoroughness of the victory.

It was the most one-sided defeat in this competition for Butterfield, who has played in more finals and won more trophies than any other player. "She was just simply better than I was," said a gracious Butterfield when it was all over. "She was incredible, especially with her drop shots."

She said she always felt that after losing the first set, she would rebound to win the second and with her conditioning, take the match to three sets.

That wasn't to be because O'Berg, who just happens to be Butterfield's partner in the Ladies 45 doubles finals today, was even more deadly in the second set, opening with a break at 30 and not letting up, romping to victory in a near record time - against Butterfield - of less than 90 minutes. On more than one occasion in previous matches it would take Butterfield that long to play one set!

Today the pair will be on the same side of the net when they take on Faith Bascome and Nanny Vanneck.

Meanwhile, the top seeded American pair of Herb Bascome and Walter Milborne continued Dick Mount's empty title chase yesterday when they captured the Men's 65 doubles crown with a straight sets 6-2, 6-3 victory over Mount and his partner Bob Brown.

Mount fought his way into three finals over the last two days of this annual tournament, but came up empty each time. But as he headed back to Massachusetts yesterday he said that he was already looking forward to next year.

"You can't win them all, but heck, it would have been awfully nice to have won at least one."

He quickly added, however, that in each final, the "opposition was just too good."

In the day's only other final, second seed Scott Estes defeated Ron Groff 6-3, 6-4.