	brunswick bc sees higher first quarter brunswick corp expects first quarter sales to be up dramatically and profits to do well chairman and president jack reichert said after a securities analysts meeting he declined to be more specific in the first quarter brunswick reported ings of mln dlrs or cts a share on sales of mln dlrs reichart noted that results of its two newly acquired boat manufacturing companies will be included in the company s first quarter report brunswick expects its recreation centers to benefit from increased attention to the sport of bowling resulting from acceptance in the summer olympics of bowling as an exhibition sport and as a medal sport in the pan american games he said he said field testing of a new bowling concept involving electronic features is being readied for test marketing this summer and if successful could materially benefit operations brunswick is currently test marketing in california a health club facility adjoining a bowling center he said turning to its defense operations reichert said he expects the division to receive significant contracts in the near future at year end brunswick s defense contract backlog stood at mln dlrs frederick florjancic vice president finance told analysts brunswick was disappointed two credit rating services recently downgraded the company s debt which stood at about mln dlrs at year end we are confident we can service our debt and bring it down in the very near term based on strong cash flow from brunswick s expanded boat operations florjancic said shareholders at the company s april annual shareholders meeting will be asked to approve an increase in the authorized common shares outstanding to mln from mln shares a company spokesman said reuter 
