Old sports (Quiz #251)

1. Which of these was NOT once a popular blood sport?

2. Pankration was a violent combat sport, similar to mixed martial arts, practised in ancient Greece. It had very few rules, although biting and eye gouging were not allowed. What was the declared result of a bout, if one of the contestants died?

3. Pato is an Argentinian sport in which two teams of players on horseback compete for possession of a ball fitted with handles, which is then thrown through a vertically positioned ring into a net. What was used in place of the ball, before pato was regulated in the 1930s?