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When we didn’t have chalk to draw the skully court, we would pull a handful of leaves from a boxwood bush or something and bunch it up into a tight ball and scrape it against the ground to draw the court. It was just as good as chalk for a little while, but it wore off fairly quickly. We had a little technique we would use called “five finger stretch” when the caps got jammed against a curb or some other object. You could stretch your fingers out on one hand to move the cap toward the court away from the object. I had three caps. One was empty for really long shots, the 2nd was half full of wax for medium shots and the third cap was full to the brim for short shots and to make the cap heavy and slower. I replaced one cap for another during the game depending on the shot needed. If you turn the heaviest cap upside down when someone else’s cap was about to “hit” yours, that would prevent the cap from being hit very far. (An opponent could really send you sailing if he wanted to!)